JOHN STEENHUISEN
If President Ramaphosa is serious about wanting NERSA and Eskom to abandon their plans to increase electricity prices by 18.65% on 1 April, he needs to show it by firing Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe.
Whereas he claims his “hands are tied” when it comes to electricity price hikes, they certainly aren’t tied when it comes to several other crucial interventions, the first of which must be firing his useless, obstructive, corrupt, socialist energy minister.
Mantashe is a major obstacle to urgently needed reform of South Africa’s electricity sector. Without meaningful reform, South Africans will be paying more for electricity either way, whether through price increases or by taking on more Eskom debt.
President Ramaphosa must not take South Africans for fools.
We all know that either electricity price hikes or taxes are needed to pay for the ANC’s incompetence and corruption, and that the only way to bring real relief is to deal with
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