HB of Edleen writes:
Late afternoon on July 2, electricity supply in Edleen was interrupted once again.
Like the previous Sunday, the week before that and the week before that.
I’ve personally seen similar periods of darkness in neighbouring cities like Boksburg and Centurion. I do not believe that this is due to fires and other maintenance issues alone.
Could it be incognito load-shedding? There are certainly more political points at stake for an already discredited government to rather hide the re-introduction of countrywide load-shedding and instead pass the wrath of the public to the metros for ‘inadequate maintenance’ and/or the more popular excuse of ‘ageing infrastructure’.
The public remain the big-time losers. Fuel for back-up generators (for those who can afford it) has become a weekly expense, which is simply added to already bloated and over-inflated electricity accounts.
Constant and frequent power interruptions might be tolerated if they are subsidised and very cheap (if not free) like in some African countries. But in South Africa, those who are paying pay top dollar to keep the lights burning.
Many economists calculated that the price of electricity rose by 300 per cent-plus over the past 10 years. As we already pay so much for electricity, is it not our right to demand that supply has to be stable?
When will those whom we’ve diligently voted back into power stop talking and actually do something so that the public finally gets a fair deal?
