Mpho Maleka

Music lover ,Entrepreneur

[Bra Bhiza uDokotela @OlwethuVilakazi]

Ngathi iThongo noMdali bangangenzela ezibukwayo(ezinhle) before kuphele lonyaka 🧎🏿

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@linda_mot Date and venue😅

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[Zeno @Zenovibez]

Ain’t no comeback bigger than finding yourself again after life had you fucked up.

[Mpho @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.

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@msihlez4456 🤝

[Sir Roger 🐐 @_rogers254]

May our dreams, wish and prayers be answered 🤲

[Mr Bat @linda_mot]

The only thing you need in life as a man is nyuku. Everything else falls into place nicely.

[CODED @IJCoded]

I want financial freedom so badly.

[David (TalkingCents) @talkcentss]

Here is how much more expensive it has become to put food on the table for your family over the past six years.

In September 2020, a basic household food basket for a family of seven cost R3,783.16. By July 2026, that same basket would set you back R5,530.52.

That's R1,747.36 more — an increase of 46.2%.

[Melanin Queen👑🌹 @onlyone_success]

Social media will have you thinking a woman is out of your league. Meanwhile, she is struggling to buy data.

She can't even afford to buy the food she posts. It's all smoke and mirrors.

[𝐆𝐔𝐋𝐔𝐕𝐀𝐊𝐀𝐙𝐈 ᥫ᭡ @mmmorati]

yebo siyavuma bafethu life is very difficult and unkind kodwa iyekeni lento ye self pity, be aggressive and fight.
people don’t care, we will stay saying sorry and ao shame but genuinely people don’t khere dem, fight.

[Sizwe Dhlomo @SizweDhlomo]

Boys, let me tell you something… Nothing is more important than family. During good times it may be tempting to celebrate with your friends & that’s fine but always reserve your best self & efforts for your family.

[Mpho Maleka @malekampho89]

@NduMavimbela We will be there😭

[Premier League @premierleague]

We are so back.

[Euphonik™♛ @euphonik]

No matter how hard you work, luck remains a powerful force in how life unfolds. ✨

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@NduMavimbela 💀 💀

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@Mr_PeterM I for one