By Nomava Nobumba
03 December 2009
Finance experts and trade unions are not allowing Eskom to get off the hook regarding next April’s proposed tariff hike.
At a packed meeting organised by trade union Solidarity in Pretoria today, things got really warm when economist Mike Schüssler confronted a senior Eskom manager on his claim that its prices were "really" not that expensive.
Resorting to using the three-letter Afrikaans K-word, Schüssler questioned numbers presented by Eskom chief officer for generation Brian Dames.
He then accused the government of "wanting to be in this Marxist, socialist k..” by providing free electricity to the poor.
Dames defended Eskom's controversial hike application to the National Energy Regulator for a 35 percent annual increase for the next three years, saying it "really" only amounted to a16 cents per
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The only solution is privatisation. Various governments in SA have promised us economic growth through cheap electricity. Now it appears that government cannot provide such cheap electricity - full stop. Only the private sector can achieve the efficiencies to provide electricity at the most economic price level, because only the private sector has the incentives. So forget about affirmative action and all the other rubbish that destroys these incentives - unless we wan't to continue paying through the nose. Regards, Richard Yelland tel +267-71319221,email cgrnick@yahoo.com
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