Revised Electricity Pricing Policy will address various issues in SA's electricity sector, says Ramokgopa

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Big change to electricity bills in South Africa planned

Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said the Revised Electricity Pricing Policy, recently approved by cabinet for public consultation, will allow customers to see the true price of electricity.

Speaking to Newzroom Afrika, the minister explained that he will join public engagements about the reviewed policy upon his return from China.
 
Well if the fiscus isn't going to pay, paying electricity customers are going to have to pay through even higher annual electricity increases.

These guys have already found the top of the Laffer Curve and are hellbent on reaching the bottom of the other side.

At this point, if you haven't bought or financed a PV system for your home or business, you're approaching borderline illiteracy.
 
FlashSA said:
Well if the fiscus isn't going to pay, paying electricity customers are going to have to pay through even higher annual electricity increases.

These guys have already found the top of the Laffer Curve and are hellbent on reaching the bottom of the other side.

At this point, if you haven't bought or financed a PV system for your home or business, you're approaching borderline illiteracy.
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And some people will say they cant afford solar but proceed to pay 3k plus for their electricity.
 
Gordon_R said:
Most of the price of electricity is tethered to a monster called Eskom, which has a history of 'sunk costs' related to corruption and mismanagement in the last two decades. No amount of transparency will undo this legacy, or make this burden go away...
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As much as we blame Eskom imagine if Muni's ran their stuff properly and gave Eskom the 110 billion or whatever they owed and managed to police the illegal connections etc. I can see leccy being cheaper.
 
Lupus said:
Nope you don't cause you're not poor
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There is such a thing as asset rich but income poor. Most indigent categories don't cater for this very well. It's partly a socio-economic thing, since elderly 'previously advantaged' have little political leverage.
 
Gordon_R said:
There is such a thing as asset rich but income poor. Most indigent categories don't cater for this very well. It's partly a socio-economic thing, since elderly 'previously advantaged' have little political leverage.
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Gordon_R said:
There is such a thing as asset rich but income poor. Most indigent categories don't cater for this very well. It's partly a socio-economic thing, since elderly 'previously advantaged' have little political leverage.
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Asset rich and income poor is not the gvts problem at the end of the day. If people made it gvt problem then almost everyone sitting with debt driving cars and staying in big houses would be indigent.

It can’t and won’t work like you say. Staying in a Capetown flat already puts you above 85% of the SA population.
 
denmendez65 said:
As much as we blame Eskom imagine if Muni's ran their stuff properly and gave Eskom the 110 billion or whatever they owed and managed to police the illegal connections etc. I can see leccy being cheaper.
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While true, you need to remember you are talking about a specific breed here, ANC government, ANC owned Eskom, and ANC owned municipalities' that aren't paying their way. So in reality the ANC is as usual the real issue. Unfortunately they have also run up so much debt and allowed infrastructure to deteriorate so badly that even replacing them with a competent government will result in decades of struggle just to get the system back on track and prices down, national debt will still be with us in 2 to 3 generations as well.
 
The real answer is to become self sufficient or as close to it as you can get, this is also the ANC's greatest fear, nothing is ever free, and you and I are paying for the so called 'free' hand out to the poor, if we become self-sufficient, the government fails. So, we have new laws coming out each week making it illegal to be self-sufficient.
 
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Bad Ballie said:
The real answer is to become self sufficient or as close to it as you can get, this is also the ANC's greatest fear, nothing is ever free, and you and I are paying for the so called 'free' hand out to the poor, if we become self-sufficient, the government fails. So, we have new laws coming out each week making it illegal to be self-sufficient.
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100% correct.

I first bought some water tanks and pumped them into the house as a backup. I then bought more tanks and can often go 1-2 months without touching municipal water. Same with solar (95% off grid on an annual basis). Started with the idea of protecting my family from the ANC run metro/SOE and then moved to take away revenue from them. I also take my time to settle my rates account just before they start charging interest. I'll push back as much as I can.
 
FlashSA said:
100% correct.

I first bought some water tanks and pumped them into the house as a backup. I then bought more tanks and can often go 1-2 months without touching municipal water. Same with solar (95% off grid on an annual basis). Started with the idea of protecting my family from the ANC run metro/SOE and then moved to take away revenue from them. I also take my time to settle my rates account just before they start charging interest. I'll push back as much as I can.
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This is actually becoming the norm, I think the ANC is finding that the harder it pushes, the harder the man on the street is starting to push back.
 
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