PHUTI MOSOMANE
A GROUP comprising of political parties, several NPOs and businessmen has written to the Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan and Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd calling for an end to load-shedding, or come up with a timetable to do so, and reverse the almost 19% tariff increase awarded to the utility.
Speaking through Mabuza Attorneys, the group is demanding a guarantee from the State that “there will be no load shedding without procedural fairness and a fair opportunity to make alternative arrangements to affected persons and businesses.”
The group includes UDM leaders Bantu Holomisa, founder of the Build One South Africa Mmusi Maimane, Inkatha Freedom Party, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, Ikasi Farming, Ntsikie Mgayiya Real Estate, the Circle and policy analyst Lukhona Mnguni.
South Africans are currently suffering about 10 hours of power cuts daily.
The group demands that load-shedding must stop with immediate effect, and if
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