Lebo Mankge

Adulting loves me 😍. Financial and spiritual growth 🙏🏽. Emotional Intelligence. United and peaceful South Africa ❤❤
Christian. Chubby cheeks 😍
PULA!

[black sheep @BabablacksheepK]

I don't know, kuyadabukisa the way you guys romanticise struggle relationships. What is the reward? Marriage?

You sound like our grans but at least their choices were limited because of circumstance but hey, "love wins" manisho nibhuqana . #izinganezesthembu

[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.

[Lesilo Rula @kay_mahapa]

Complaining on the TL won’t help us guys. Let’s send through comments on this proposed hike. This is not sustainable and it won’t stop until we voice out our disapproval through the right channels.

[Born-in-SA🇿🇦 @_Tee__G]

South Africans help tag DA to Speed up my enquiry.

This matter need urgent attention.

🙏🏽

[🇿🇦TheGreatDlamini🇿🇦 @Phislash]

Theres a white Phakelumthakathi thats giving Pakistanis a headache in Cape Town 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[Lebo Mankge @lebomankge]

@mphumzii @Wakes_Kay1 Nothing wrong with this. I’ve seen people filling up the kettle to the brim, and some overfilling the iron

[🤘🏽Julianne🤘🏽 @IrisJulianne]

The only person who takes their music and performance serious ke @MakhadziSA She loves her fans too much to perform in a dress okare Oya makuleng o reka borotho.

[Born-in-SA🇿🇦 @_Tee__G]

As we continue to dig for evidence that may assist with the Chidimma case, we have uncovered another issue that raises questions.

We have found that she allegedly does not have a birth certificate but has a South African ID.

This raises an important question: How was the ID obtained, and what documents were used to support the application?

❌Patriots This case will never Slide on our watch 🤞🏽.

[812 Duchess 👸🏽🌻 @_awuvuyxna]

I’m sorry sana but as uncomfortable as it is: such stuff happens in real life EVERY SINGLE DAY.
One thing about Skeem Saam they create awareness on such topics because most people don’t even realize they’re in bad situations till they learn about it somewhere else
#SkeemSaam

[𝓢𝓱𝓪𝔂𝔂𝔂 🧚🏾‍♀️✨✨ @_iamhershayyy]

I’d rather pay every bill, come home to an empty house, and sleep alone than live with a man who disrupts my nervous system.

[Yusuf Abramjee @Abramjee]

This man is wanted after booking an Airbnb at Birchwood Village, Fourways, on Sunday, 9 August, before ransacking the apartment and stealing a TV, microwave, kettle, iron and washing machine.

The suspect left with the stolen items after committing the theft.

Anyone who recognises him or has information about his whereabouts is urged to call CrimeStop on 08600 10111 or the Douglasdale SAPS.

Please RT and share -someone may recognise him and help bring him to justice.

[Cairo Mathebula @Cairo_Mathebula]

Not a chance, her work as Health Minister from 1994 to 1999, is why restaurants have smoking areas and there's no Tobacco advertising on TV. She's contributed a lot.

[Miss Ziprusha @destinyzee]

There’s an event that is planned in October 2026 in Joburg called One Night in Lagos, we as South Africans need to boycott it and search documents to everyone that will attend that thing. No Nigerian Events or traditions should take place in SA. I hope the authorities especially @HomeAffairsSA is aware of such. Ayikho into ehlanganisa iSA ne Nigeria ❌🙅‍♀️

[Corruption-Hater 🦅🇿🇦🦁 @MadiBoity]

An author who does not read, and does not know both the Freedom Charter and the constitution. Wait! She once took a passport to a voting station to vote and was livid to be refused to vote with a passport. 😂😂😂😂

[Bianca van Wyk @BiancavanWyk16]

AfriForum is not a private company.

It is a registered Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) and a Public Benefit Organisation (PBO) that enjoys the tax benefits associated with its public benefit status in South Africa.

When an NPO raises more than R1.6 billion from the public while simultaneously lobbying a foreign government on matters that could affect South Africa’s trade, investment and international relations, scrutiny isn’t optional.

[🇿🇦TheGreatDlamini🇿🇦 @Phislash]

The oppressor always plants an agent like Ngizwe in all struggles that they have no control over in SA.

In #FeesMustFall they gave those SASCO-WITS girls goverment positions that they still hold to this day.

During the #DataMustFall online movement, T-Bo Touch appointed himself as a leader and suddenly emerged with a MTN funded independent radio station that flopped.

Now they have Ngizwe Mchunu attempting to dilute our anger by selling out in the fight against illegal immigration.

Typical.

[The Counterhegemon @GillianSchutte1]

I wrote this article on the xenophobia lie last May and have been pushing this message for years.

What do the NGO industry and liberal media do to those of us who expose, smash and bury their false-consciousness constructs? They deplatform us. They smear us. They manufacture reputational damage. They attempt to gag us by pretending our voices carry no weight, pushing us into the shadows through exclusion, suppression and algorithmic invisibility.

Once you see through their imperialist manipulation, you cannot unsee it.

It is vicious. It is anti-Black. It is anti-African. It is hostile to majoritariat sovereignty, Black Consciousness, authentic Marxist-Leninist thought and every revolutionary tradition that threatens the rule of capital. It is the master’s whip, repackaged as progressive concern.

Sies.

It is also increasingly clear that South Africa’s Indigenous majority are among the most oppressed, policed, lectured, disciplined and politically managed people in the world, alongside the Palestinian people.

Why?

Because in the colonists's imagination the land and its resources must never be returned. Because those who inherited stolen ownership intend to keep what was never theirs. Because African wealth must, according to the masters and their butlers, continue flowing outward to the United States, Britain and the wider Anglosphere, whose prosperity has always depended upon the extraction, impoverishment and containment of the African world.

They call this democracy.

We know it as organised theft. A Crime against humanity that has never been tried.

A Burkina Faso Moment is due.

https://t.co/hOueihlNKv

[WalletHero @Sir_Nare_]

🇿🇦https://t.co/OpZ6a5F5xO As a data analyst and developer I created Mzansi's first grocery comparison site that helps consumers make price conscious decisions. I'm just struggling with marketing it out there, please share🙏🏾. We compare across Shoprite, pick n Pay, Woolworths etc.

[Lebo Mankge @lebomankge]

@ThapeloAJ The guy is Zimbabwean

[Jacinta Ngobese🇿🇦 @JacintaNgobese]

I’m seeing videos of Zimbabweans complaining that Zimbabweans in Zimbabwe are mistreating and abusing Zimbabweans coming back from South Africa… imagine my shock 😳 😳‼️‼️ The same ppl calling us xenophobic are saying the ppl coming back from SA will increase crime and take job opportunities from them??? Do you guys understand why it’s important for us to continue this fight?? Because why must we be the ones that take all these countries problems and make them ours at the expense of our own ppl while they continue to want to preserve the little they have for themselves even without being called names like XENOPHOBIA or AFOPHOBIA??? Their own citizens?? 😳😳😳