Eskom fixed-cost changes causing 30% electricity price increases

[Jan]

Eskom fixed-cost changes causing 30% electricity price increases

Many South Africans living in multi-dwelling properties are getting substantially higher electricity price increases than Eskom Direct and municipal customers.

Eskom Direct customers received a 12.74% average electricity price increase from 1 April 2025. The power utility also received approval to increase municipal bulk electricity fees by 11.32% from 1 July.

 

[skimread]

Surely this is discrimination against people living in town house complexes. Security complexes should be paying less than individual homes who are way more likely to default and have maintenance issues with meter boxes.

People have to pay extra for security and levies by staying in a complex but now have to pay 30% increases. This is getting absurd. I hope this is successfully challenged

 

[saor]

Those who use low to moderate amounts of electricity will have higher overall bill increases due to a greater contribution from fixed charges in Eskom’s retail tariff plan (RTP) structure.

Ridiculous. So punish:

1.) Lower income families
2.) People who've been trying to use less electricity.

Can we redo the 1994 elections please?

 

[Swa]

This doesn't explain why it's more than municipal and Eskom customers in the same situation.

 

[hj007]

yeah, everyone in my complex flipping out - and the numbers aren't easily explainable it seems.

But yes, fixed charge is now half the cost on modest usage --- as they say you can't escape death and eskom (taxes).

 

[Corelli]

I got slapped with 30% increase due to fixed charges alone that I never had before.

 

[RedViking]

+ 10% prepaid meter service fee + 15.xx VAT

We ARE SCREWED

 

[Bad Ballie]

Pure extortion, they know that be it electricity, petrol/diesel or even gas, they control the price and own you.

 

[Benedict A55h0le not]

Stealth EWC at work. We are paying rent to live in the properties we bought. Froggies must boil nicely now. DA is even worse than the ANC. ANC is learning how to milk the cash cows from bed buddies DA.

 

[hj007]

Stealth EWC at work. We are paying rent to live in the properties we bought. Froggies must boil nicely now. DA is even worse than the ANC. ANC is learning how to milk the cash cows from bed buddies DA.

Property always has been a great way to tax the population

 

[fragtion]

Can we redo the 1994 elections please?

Without meaning to turn this into a twitter-esque thread: good luck solving this with another election

 

[rh1]

Stealth EWC at work. We are paying rent to live in the properties we bought. Froggies must boil nicely now. DA is even worse than the ANC. ANC is learning how to milk the cash cows from bed buddies DA.

 

[Swa]

Without meaning to turn this into a twitter-esque thread: good luck solving this with another election

The problem wasn't the election, it was the concessions made. Our constitution was written to be somewhat ambiguous and not allow true democracy which was already a known thing at the time but ANC and NP thought they should still maintain full control and not the population.