AMID crippling loadshedding across the country, the Democratic Alliance (DA) will head to the High Court to interdict the 18.6% electricity tariff hike that was recently granted by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) to Eskom last week.
DA leader John Steenhuisen said South Africans, who have already had to spend a third of 2022 in darkness and are burdened with indefinite Stage 6 load-shedding, are now expected to also pay for the looting and mismanagement of Eskom through exorbitant tariff increases.
He argues that electricity tariffs have already increased by more than 650% since the energy crisis started in 2007, which, he says, is quadruple the inflation rate over the same period.
The DA’s lawyers will ask the High Court to have Nersa’s decision be declared inconsistent with the Constitution of South Africa, declared invalid, and to have it set aside.
The party also wants loadshedding to be declared inconsistent with the Constitution and therefore invalid, and to have these
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