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[Rampard🇿🇦 @RamaphiriMpho]

Guys here is Template @KePiitso COPY AND PASTE

3 September 2026

To: The Energy Regulator
National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA)
Kulawula House, 526 Madiba Street, Arcadia, Pretoria

REF: Comments on the Consultation Paper on the Eskom Retail Tariff Structural Adjustment (ERTSA) Application for Standard Tariffs for the 2027/28 Financial Year, published 2 September 2026 (closing date for comments: 2 October 2026, 16:00)

Subject: Unconditional objection to any further electricity price increase - nothing less than a reduction is acceptable

Dear Members of the Energy Regulator

1. I write in terms of the public participation process to record my unconditional objection to Eskom's ERTSA application for the 2027/28 financial year, which proposes yet another average increase of approximately 8.8% in the price of electricity. I say this at the outset, clearly and without equivocation: nothing but a reduction in the price of electricity is acceptable. Another increase is not merely undesirable - it is unjustifiable, unaffordable and unconscionable in the current economic climate.

2. Over the past twenty years, the price of electricity in South Africa has risen by more than 900% - cumulative increases that have outpaced inflation by a wide margin and dwarfed wage growth for ordinary workers. Every single year, South Africans are told that this year's increase is the last one, or the minimum possible, or somehow for our own good. Yet the increases never stop. Even the Regulator's most recent determination, approving an average increase of 8.76% for 2026/27, landed on consumers who are already drowning, and Eskom is already back asking for 8.8% more. Each increase compounds the last, and the burden is never lifted - it is only passed on.

3. This country is in the grip of a cost-of-living crisis. Food prices, fuel, municipal rates, transport and housing have all risen relentlessly, while salaries and wages have not kept pace. Working South Africans are doing more hours for less real money, and every cent counts. Electricity is not a luxury that can be cut from a budget - it is a basic need: it cooks our food, keeps medicine cold, lights our children's homework, and powers the small enterprises that employ our neighbours. For the poor, who spend a far larger share of their income on energy and who buy electricity through prepaid metres, every tariff increase is a direct, immediate cut to an already inadequate income. When the price of electricity rises, it is not Eskom's shareholders who feel it - it is the pensioner in a two-room house in winter, and the domestic worker who must choose between a warm meal and electricity for the week. The poor and the working class bear the brunt of every increase, and they can bear no more.

4. Eskom's demand for yet another increase is all the more indefensible given its own financial results. Eskom has now recorded its first profit since 2017 - R23.9 billion before tax in the 2024/25 financial year - and reports indicate that profits have since more than doubled. Eskom's own annual results attribute this turnaround in large measure to tariff increases already granted. In other words, the South African public has already paid for Eskom's recovery through higher prices, and Eskom now returns to the trough asking for more, while sitting on record profits. Those profits should be applied to reducing the price of electricity and easing the burden on consumers - not to funding yet another round of increases. A profitable Eskom that still demands annual hikes is not a utility in need; it is a monopoly that has learned that the public will always have to pay.

[Africa Facts Zone @AfricaFactsZone]

South Africa's Bayanda Walaza has won the Men's 100m race at the Serbia Athletics Meeting 🇷🇸 with a time of 9.89 seconds.

He also won the Men's 100m races at the Ostrava Golden Spike in Czech 🇨🇿, TIPOS P-T-S Meeting in Slovakia 🇸🇰 and Grand Prix Brescia in Italy 🇮🇹 this year.

[kgadi♠️ @Kgadi_yaMoloto]

Prince is in Taung today, paying this rascal a visit. Fetch them one by one.🤌🙏🏿

[Miyandy @Amahashi_]

@ANCYLhq 🕯️

[Megan S. @SimplyMegszcpt]

No ambulances, no police cars, but you have a fleet of cars. I'm just dying to know where this money came from. You can't even pay your staff. I hope people chase you away wherever you go, you bunch of lying, looting, incompetent miscreants. 🇿🇦

[Rami Chuene @ramichuene]

You don’t mention the black female co-pilot? Limpopo born, Ms Saka Rebone

[knick @Knick_RSA]

There you go again ruining a good thing like how you did our democracy.

[Tall Man 🇬🇷🇿🇦 @vuyo_ro]

This is economic assassination and it is directed to the poor people and the working class.

[Blanco 🇿🇦® @DineoDMufamadi]

Getting excited over things that don’t involve you! Focus on the high unemployment and corruption in our country

[Nhlanhla Hlabisa🇸🇿🇿🇦 @bab_hlabisa]

Satafrika is a different country 😂😂😂😂

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

Six months later, and still no recruitment of 10 000 labour inspectors promised at SONA
https://t.co/uoAL5PX5wI

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

Fortunately, I’ll go very far in life.

[Babylass_ @IshakuHyelni]

Oh to be disgustingly educated. To have a degree with your name on it. To enter rooms and raise the standard. To know your stuff and know it well. To have knowledge nobody can take from you. Such a big flex.

[Gontse Chauke 📝 @_BlackZA]

Degree shaming bores me ey. Someone spent 3-4 years studying, having sleepless nights, and now when they celebrate their victory, you somehow try to bring them down by stating how easy their degree is. Come on man, guys don't be like that,

[Nondaba🇿🇦 @ShweleNgelosi]

We will
We will
We will
Since 1994🚮🚮

[Mads @europemaxxed]

Job application so good that they're still processing it after a year

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

Seeing people spend on themselves is not an invitation to ask them for money

[MOTASE @TheRealMotase]

I think the appropriate thing to do for teachers with her body type is to leave their bums at home when they go to work..

[Neli M 🇸🇿🇿🇦 @NellyM_0]

As someone who has lost a parent. I don’t remember calling my friends one by one to talk them. The friend who stays close to my house heard the news and told all my other friends.
Can’t be nursing friends’ feelings while grieving the loss of a parent.

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

That fake checkup before asking for a favour is crazy fr