President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted to not knowing what his monthly electricity bill is, despite championing the migration to a prepaid meter system to Soweto residents during a recent election campaign.
On how to cope with power cuts at his Hyde Park residence, Ramaphosa said: “I guess you will have to have another form of energy like candles or some other type of lighting and I guess it does put some type of“Your food stuff can be spoilt and can go bad [off] in the fridge and I think we manage and deal with power cuts in different types of ways. It is a serious problem and one does not want to make light of it because it affects people’s lives and sometimes their health.
Ramaphosa said power cuts and load-shedding were a countrywide problem. “There are different types of power cuts. There are those that are as a result of load-shedding, when Eskom is trying to balance its own power generation and has to resort to whatever levels, and so we all experience power cuts on a possible regional basis.”
The other type, he said, were the ones experienced by people who were victims of illegal connections, when the power substations explode because they cannot cope with the load. “There are those other power cuts caused by people not paying. “Eskom is just too big to fail. We cannot allow Eskom to fail, but in order for us to not let it fail, we also have to act as South Africans to ensure that it does not fail.”
Ramaphosa said the state needed to support Eskom, while consumers needed to do their bit by paying for electricity. Those who could not pay should get on the indigent list so that they receive subsidised electricity, he added.
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