kgosigadi ya Barolong

Ke tshetlhana, ngwana wa thari e ntsho. Modiboa oo mabeo. Ke Morolong, ke kgosigadi

[kgosigadi ya Barolong @Nthabi_bee]

Anything that costs me my peace is too expensive

[Mason @brxxklynbxby__]

Influencers are the private equity of culture: draining whatever’s “cool” until higher prices and worse experiences push out the original fan base. Then they move on to the next thing, leaving the original to die as fans lose interest or the ability to participate.

[kgosigadi ya Barolong @Nthabi_bee]

@SkyNews Influencers have now ruined tennis

[Petite Ebony Girl 🇵🇸 @PetiteEbonyGirl]

Please email NERSA to oppose this, because ESKOM is running mad

[Mbekezeli @MbekezeliMB]

In his speech at @UctLaw Justice Madlanga refers to @JusstAlpha’s story below as an example of how this is a violation of people’s dignity and a violation of the Constitutional promise.

[Wu TonGue @scarface_254]

Budgeting with clean money

[Sunflower @Sunflowerreal]

I found it .

[Eyewitness News @ewnupdates]

Eskom’s proposed electricity price increase by an average of 8.83% for the 2027/2028 financial year is open for public consultation. https://t.co/ctaEmXnVko

[komolika @Ichanpyaari]

your mom cooking a full meal while she's sick doesn't show how good of a mother she is. it shows how disgustingly pathetic her husband and son are.

[kgosigadi ya Barolong @Nthabi_bee]

@lEsethuHasane We voting for action SA

[kgosigadi ya Barolong @Nthabi_bee]

@disan_m @BBCAfrica Oh my God, I said that the tweet was about Kenya reserving local business for locals just like South Africa did and was called xenophobic. I didn’t talk about illegal emigration

[kgosigadi ya Barolong @Nthabi_bee]

We can’t afford to live anymore in South Africa

[eNCA @eNCA]

Petrol up R7. Diesel up about R12. That is how much fuel prices have risen since the war began. And with oil back at $97 a barrel, the question South African motorists now have to ask is simple: what happens next?

Watch the full episode: https://t.co/baTZgPc86B

[kgosigadi ya Barolong @Nthabi_bee]

@daddyhope Why are you not labelling him as xenophobic like you do when it’s South Africa or is it because this term of afrophobia and xenophobia is reserved only for South Africa?

[Wow, He’s Tsonga! @_aboihasnoname]

Anyone who has a template we can all use?

[kgosigadi ya Barolong @Nthabi_bee]

@disan_m @BBCAfrica You are lying, the movement has always been about illegal migration and also the tweet is about Kenya reserving local businesses for its citizens and that’s exactly what South Africa has been crucified for

[kgosigadi ya Barolong @Nthabi_bee]

@Radio702 @AbsaSouthAfrica We are already underpaid so how can we afford medical aid with all its exorbitant fees

[kgosigadi ya Barolong @Nthabi_bee]

@tlangimich @CityTshwane Pretending to work harder because it’s election season is embarrassing at the end of the day we are still not voting for the ANC

[kgosigadi ya Barolong @Nthabi_bee]

@disan_m @BBCAfrica Yes it is. In South Africa we tried reserving local spaza shops for locals and we were called xenophobic

[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.

[kgosigadi ya Barolong @Nthabi_bee]

@thefedsrlurking @BusinessTechSA @Eskom_SA Already sent the email