The Democratic Alliance (DA) has reiterated that the nation is being subjected to rolling blackouts and vitality price will increase primarily as a consequence of corruption and maladministration by the African National Congress (ANC) authorities.
DA chief, John Steenhuisen, has known as on South Africans and organisations to hitch a march to Luthuli House on the twenty fifth of January to protest towards the electrical energy disaster.
Energy regulator, NERSA, not too long ago accepted Eskom’s tariff enhance software, by 18.65%, for the 2023/2024 monetary yr. It comes because the nation endures Stage 6 energy cuts.
Steenhuisen made this announcement.
“I am inviting all South Africans, civil society, other political organisations, NGOs, CEOs, every South African who is sick to death of this government stealing money and making us pay for it, to join us at our national mass march in Johannesburg.”
EFF response
Meanwhile Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has warned that the vitality regulator NERSA’s newest approval of electrical energy price hikes will deepen poverty throughout South Africa.
The EFF’s National Spokesperson, Sinawo Thambo, says they reject the brand new tariff hikes.
“This increase will put people further into extreme poverty and impact on the livelihoods that are already affected for a service that is not even being rendered efficiently, as we are continuously on Stage 6 rolling blackouts.”
ATM response
The African Transformation Movement (ATM) says it believes that the federal government doesn’t have an answer to the nation’s electrical energy disaster.
The ATM’s Spokesperson Zama Ntshona says the National Energy Crisis Committee has accomplished nothing.
“There is nothing tangible that has been done by the National Energy Crisis Committee that was established by the president in August 2022. This is a clear indication that the government does not have a solution when it comes to this current crisis.”
