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Original Post Date: 2008-04-18 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
Eskom must withdraw its application to the National Energy Regulator of SA for a 53 percent tariff increase, SA Communist Party secretary- general Blade Nzimande said on Thursday.
About 5 000 union members took to the streets of Johannesburg to protest over the rising prices of food, fuel and electricity.
Nzimande was addressing protesters outside the Eskom offices in Johannesburg.
“In fact we are quite angry, workers have gone through years of retrenchments, low wages and casualisation,” Nzimande said, adding that there was a threat that more workers would lose their jobs as a result of the electricity crisis.
| ‘The hike will worsen the misery of our people’ |
“Workers and the poor cannot absorb such an exorbitant increase in the electricity tariff.”
To loud applause Nzimande said that workers and the poor should not have to pay for Eskom and government’s mistakes.
In a memorandum, the SACP and the Congress of SA Trade Unions, who organised the march, are also demanding that a national energy summit be convened.
“The hike will worsen the misery of our people,” said Nzimande.
Around 2.30pm general manager of Eskom, Jurgen Vos, came out of the Eskom building under heavy police guard.
| ‘The cost of power cuts must not be borne by the poorest in society’ |
He climbed onto the back of the Cosatu bakkie where he received the union’s memorandum.
In response to the memorandum he told the crowd that Eskom took Cosatu’s complaint “very seriously”.
“That is why we are working with our stakeholders to ensure minimum impact (of load shedding and higher electricity prices) on the poor”.
Protesters voiced their dismay by booing at the general manager as he retreated back into the building.
Protesters sang and danced as they walked down the streets of Johannesburg carrying placards which read: “The SACP says no to the proposed 53 percent electricity hike” and “The cost of power cuts must not be borne by the poorest in society”.
A number of times the large gathering broke into song, singing “Lento oyenzayo ayilunganga”, roughly translating to “what you are doing is not right, it must stop with immediate effect”. – Sapa
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080417164051523C416288