Kouga – On 20 August 2024, Kouga Municipality Executive Mayor Hattingh Bornmann wrote to the National Electricity Regulation of South Africa (NERSA) objecting to the proposed 40% electricity tariff increase in 2025.
Yesterday, 7 October 2024, Bornman launched a petition. He encourages all residents of the Eastern Cape to sign the petition, which will be delivered to Parliament.
A Ridiculous Increase
“Kouga Municipality is working hard to create an environment that makes business here easy and attractive to investment,” said Bornman. “A ridiculous increase, as proposed, will most certainly render our efforts fruitless as it will significantly inflate business operating expenses, leading to potential closures and job losses.”
Kouga Municipality Executive Mayor Bornman added that this increase will force vulnerable communities to choose between essential needs like electricity and basic necessities such as food.
Sign The Petition
Residents against the proposed increase, are encouraged to sign the petition at https://4i959i3h.forms.app/online-petition-form. Alternatively, visit the Kouga Municipality website at www.kouga/gov.za and click on Notices and News.
See also: Kouga plants over 100 indigenous trees in afforestation effort
Crazy!
No increase please we already suffer
No increase please.
This is ludicrous how are we supposed to make a living? It’s just like our Petrol pricing.
Please don’t increase the electricity.
No increase . We are already suffering with everything that’s so expensive
It is appalling that Eskom now wish to increase the cost of our electricity by 40% to cover stolen funds & total ineptitude. It is robbery. We suffered an extremely dangerous situation when the overhead pylon carrying 22k volts over Goed Geloof Farm caught fire due to complete lack of maintenance & those supposedly in control at Eskom do not even know how to reply to a letter of complaint. I suffered serious & costly medical consequences due to this catastrophe.
Alles is al reeds so duur dis belaglik stem teen dit
No incresse. We already paying to much for electricity
Please don’t increase the electricity
Stop dit…..ons kan nie vir Eskom se foute betaal aanmekaar nie…julle kill ons.
No increase from escom
No increase
Pensioners and low income groups can not be held responsible for the billions of rand fraud and municipalities except Kouga who pay their dues
No increase
No increase please.
No increase we are suffering enough with all these hikes
Crazy increase!
Die verhogings maak ons dood.
Increase is unacceptable
Belaglike verhogings, hoe kan mens dit bekostig
We are suffering enough
Everything goes up except wages .
NO INCREASE PLEASE
No increase
Belaglik
Increase is ridiculous
Busybre.mvs@gmail.com
Geen verhoging asb.
No increase please
A increase is not acceptable . I am against the proposed increase. We supply our neighbouring countries power at a lower rate than our own local rate. This is how we encourage investors not to open factories locally , and go to our neighbours . Very Intellegent.
No increase. Our country is already suffering from all the mismanagement.
This is an absolute ridicules increase. As soon as electricity goes up, the price of everything from food to clothing will go up as well.
Nobody, especially pensioners and sassa people can afford this
Please this increase will really affect the poor
I’m against this increase, as a Sassa pensioner, like millions of South Africans,who got No Work, and very old people with very little income, from sassa,child grant,etc,will starve, The food prices will sky rocket, From the farmers,the Factories,and retailers,
We don’t afford the increase
No increase please.
Crazy
Madness we suffer already
No its crazy
Kouga should go solar and be off the grid entirely!
No increase please!
No increase!!!
No increase please
The more money they get, the more the corruption will be.
Ridiculous
We are suffering as it is. How do you think will the people who is dependent on there SASSA be able to get by.
They Eskom are totaly out of their minds.
I am strongly against it. No increase
They are crazy…no…no
They are crazy…no…no…no
Not acceptable, just crazy
Crazy increase!
Please…no increase. The elderly cannot afford an increase…
Would be un affordable, if the same tarrif applies to everyone accross the board, we wouldn’t have this problem.
No increase everything go up where will it end no no it’s time we as south Africa must stand as one
I strongly object to the proposed 40% electricity tariff increase in 2025.
Increase = The cost of no load shedding
Ridiculous
Is it impossible to keep up with this tariff and we have to pay for Eskom money they steal
I am opposed to this hike as there is no reason
People are suffering with increased costs.
Goverment Incompetency should not be burdened to the people
No increase
No imcrease
No increase, PLEASE!!!!!!
No increase please
No to the insane hike in tarrifs
I object to this increase
This increase is unfeasible for a large portion of the country and, clearly, Ill planned.
Ridiculous increase that they’ ask for every year is outrageous and should be shot down .
Ek stem nie saam met die verhoging nie. Hoekom kry die ander kleuriges aan die begin van die maand vernier krag en ons ander moet betaal. So nee dis nie regverdig dat ons vir hulle ook moet betaal nie.
NO increase!!!!!!!!!!
Waartoe hierna? Absolute malligheid. Genoeg is genoeg!
No increace
No to increase
Efficient, corruption-free management can reduce costs
Against it.
Ridiculous!
No to 40 percent ncrease>
Please no increase!!
Ridiculous
No!
Say No to 40% increase.
No electricity increase please!
Nonto the huge increases. Its insane
I’m against the 40% increase in electricity tariff
Please no increases
Ridiculous, people are struggling to put food on the table. We do not earn what government employees earn.
No terrif increase
No to increase
Ridiculous! What about our poor people? No! No! No!
Please don’t increase with 40%
It is getting ridiculous!
Pensioners cannot afford 40% increase. Every time we buy electricity we get fewer units. We are currently buying R1000 electricity and are getting less than 450 units
Nee!!!!!! Vir die 40% verhoging……
Just wondering what had happened to Molefe, Ghordan, and the many others for mismanagement, corruption, theft, etc.
From the BEST SUPPLIER of ELECTRICITY in the WORLD on Limited Resources to the laughing stock of the world. 0L
There is no chance that a houshold where people with little or no income already suffer to get by, will be be able to afford this.
Even the middle class and higher will suffer.
Higher electricity equals again higher food prices.
How is one supposed to sur ive this?
Rather cut the price by 40%
A ridiculous increase
Disgusting!!! How will people survive?
We are already struggling to survive with salaries that is the minimum in the Kouga area. How are we suppose to cope with more increases?
This is Marcist forms of oppression. To allow a monopolised state servivevprovider to exploit the citizens shoes that this is not a democracy where the people decide, no we are being told what will and what will not be done. This is sick. We the people have been sold as paying slaves. People are dying in droves because of a lack of proper infrastructure from proper medical care to road safety to inflation cost the list goes on. But of cours they don’t care. Stop supplying our electricity to other African countries for virtually free and then make us pay for Everything. This is still a democracy as for as we know…the people has a right to say enough is enough!!!
Stop this increase!
40% increase is ridiculous! Most resdidents are already struggeling financially! We cannot afford these increases. If the power goes up then everything else follows. This causes poverty!
Ons is sassa mense.
Kan nie byhou met die krag wat so opgaan nie.
Ek se nee vir 40% verhoging vir Eskom .Ons kan amper nie eers ons eie munisipaliteit rekeninge betaal nie wat nog te se.van nog n verhoging dan leef ons sonder krag.ons pensioenarisse het skaars geld vir kos.Nee nogmaals Nee vir die verhoging.mev E Blanche
It’s already crippling the financially crippled.
I believe we are already paying more than enough… As it is, so many people are using gas stoves, geysers to out down on their electricity bill… eskom need to manage their budget better in my opinion…
Normal middle class people just cannot keep up. After seeing the Presidents 10 most valuable assets it is shocking the difference between the rich and the middle class.
40 % increase is way overboard
Please, I don’t think South Africa can cope with a 40% increase. Electricity is so expensive as it is. Peoples salaries do not reflect the amount needed to live a comfortable life. Be more proficient and create more sustainable energy sources for the future of this country and its people. I feel this is something we should not even be paying for. Better planning and less greed would create a much better world for all of us.
40% is ridiculous how are people even surviving anymore?
Totally against it.
Daylight robbery. Excuse the pun
Being a pensioner just makes it more difficult to manage the budget.
Ek se nee vir die 40% verhoging. Ons kry reeds klaar te swaar en het skaars geld om kos te koop
No increase
We cannot afford it
No 40% increases, its not sustainable!!
Not acceptable
Please try and find a fair solution to all parties – a price hike should not “suffocate” the consumer
No to the 40% increase.
No to a 40% price increase,
absolutely unacceptable.
Impossible, you will kill the consumer and the economy!!!
No increase
NOT ACCEPTABLE AT ALL!!
Please NO increase !
It will kill small businesses for a start and we are all taking enough strain as it is !!
No increase
Effeciently inept
Eskom’s rates increases are ridiculous and will just lead to more electricity theft, and general theft and graft from those that hold and control the purse-strings.
Businesses are collapsing all around the country as the cost of manufacture, warehousing, distribution and sales spiral rampantly out of control.
Thanks to no-one other that ANC incompetence.
Not a 40% increase please nobody can afford it!
Stop the increase – let sanity prevail !
Rediculous! NO
Stop exporting our electricity… Not acceptable
Totally against such an increase!!!!
Ridiculous !
No to increase
Ridiculous!
No increase please
We are a small business this could potentialy bankrupt us 30 families no income we cannot afford this
No increase
Cannot afford the increase.
No increase please
Ridiculous when people are struggling. No
No to the proposed Increase.
No more increases
Crazy to have a 40% increase in electricity—not affordable
Unaffordable
Increases are a reality but 40% is ridiculous! Eskom is a business, run it as one, stop the theft of funds, collect on the existing debt, curb the pay increases and exorbitant bonuses for a job not well done. Stop the rot and stop punishing the people that do pay for electricity.
Not acceptable
I strongly oppose the proposed 40% increase in electricity tariffs by Eskom. This rate hike far exceeds inflation rates and places an undue financial burden on consumers. It’s essential for utility price increases to align more closely with the economic realities faced by households and businesses. Such an exorbitant increase is not justifiable
Not acceptable
No please not
Please not
No .it is already too high
No more increases
No increase please
Absolute robbery. Our people cannot afford this. we support our Mayor 100%.
Please no increase we being strangled on all sides
Supporting Mayor, no increase please!
No way should the rates be increased at this time
Escom must get rid of the “ dead wood” they are paying salaries to then we don’t need to pay more for electricity.
Hike so far out of line it is ridiculous!
We wont have money left for food!!!
Absolutely mind boggling! Businesses and citizens of SA simply cannot afford this.
PLEASE DONT INCREASE THE TARRIFF OF ELECTRISITY
Please sign the petition here:
https://4i959i3h.forms.app/online-petition-form
The comments section is not the petition
No increase
General inflation related increase as a maximum-5 to 6 percent .
Shear stupidity! Maybe if we paid for power and water direct to the supplier, we would be better off and maintained properly?
No increase please!
No electricity increase
Government scru people to sub their lifle stiles’it is hightime to stop paying taxes
Screw eskom
No Increase please
Dis n belaglike verhiging wat nie deur mrnse bekostig kan wird nie. Sodoende sal kospryse en lewenstsndaarde so erg styg dat armoede erger sal tieslaan.
Everyone in this country is suffering to pay essential necessities we shouldn’t have to beg.
A 40% increase will impoverish millions of South Africans
No increase, it is unaffordable