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/ 18 January 2010
Eskom’s proposed 35% tariff hike will lead to more illegal connections, the SA Institute of Electrical Engineers and Cosatu said on Monday.
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/ 14 January 2010
Public sentiment is against Eskom’s proposed tariff hike and the parastatal needs to find other funding options, Cope said on Thursday.
Nersa’s hearings on Eskom’s massive tariff hikes begins soon but government hasn’t made the plan it is based on available. Read our leaked copy.
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/ 9 December 2009
South African power utility Eskom’s proposed tariff hikes could be the death knell for the mining industry, auditing firm BDO warned on Wednesday.
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/ 27 November 2009
Eskom’s tariff increases will harm the economy so an alternative is needed, writes Lloyd Gedye.
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/ 23 October 2009
Many residents of Soweto don’t fret about electricity cut-offs, they simply call the ‘technician’.
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/ 17 October 2009
Eskom has been battling to keep the lights on. Now it wants to shoot them out.
The electricity hike could further slow down the decline in consumer price inflation (CPI), which government has targeted at between 3% to 6%.
Consumers suffered a triple whammy this week, with stiff increases in electricity tariffs, a petrol-price hike and no interest-rate cut.
Electricity parastatal Eskom is guilty of price discrimination, economist Mike Schussler said on Friday.
Municipalities are at risk whether Eskom’s interim price increase of 34% was granted or not, the South African Local Government Association said.
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/ 10 February 2009
Eskom has submitted a long-awaited application for a new tariff increase to Nersa, Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 January 2009
There have been no deliberate power cuts since April last year, state-owned electricity company Eskom said on Friday.
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/ 20 November 2008
State-owned utility Eskom is to review its plan to raise tariffs on power in light of the global financial turmoil.
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/ 4 September 2008
Cosatu considered recent protests and a national stayaway over rising food, fuel and electricity prices as major victories, it said on Thursday.
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/ 3 September 2008
It will take an investment of at least R1-trillion to prevent SA from becoming an energy-scarce country, Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin said.
SA’s targeted CPIX consumer inflation is expected to have raced to an all-time high in the year to July on the impact of power price increases.
Significant support is expected in all nine provinces for Wednesday’s protests against electricity and other price hikes, Cosatu said.
Johannesburg residents and industries can expect an electricity price hike this week, city mayor Amos Masondo said on Monday.
About 25 000 Cosatu members started marching to Eskom’s offices in Johannesburg on Wednesday to protest against rising electricity and food prices.
Tens of thousands of workers downed tools in four provinces on Wednesday to voice their "disgust" with rising living costs.
Thousands of workers took to the streets on Wednesday in support of a Cosatu protest against rocketing food and power prices.
Cosatu expects a total shutdown of business on Wednesday in three provinces during the second round of its planned protests against spiralling prices.
Soaring oil prices have led to such a boom for solar power that the industry could operate without subsidies in just a few years’ time, according to i
Poorer residential consumers will pay only 14,2% more for electricity this year, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa said on Tuesday.
Eskom’s top managers will forgo much of their annual bonuses this year after a troubled few months for the state-owned power utility.
South Africa’s targeted CPIX inflation quickened to a new five-and-half-year high of 10,9% year-on-year in May from 10,4% in April.