Low-income consumers use prepaid electricity for economic reasons and therefore cannot afford the R200 charge.
While the City of Johannesburg is ignoring calls to drop its R200 fixed service charge on the prepaid high-usage electricity tariff, low-income consumers are suffering the consequences which another department will end up having to pay for.
Basically, she says, this means that the decision to add on an extra R230 should not be the decision just of City Power but all municipal, provincial and national departments, including Treasury who will have to find the extra money to pay for the negative consequences of the decision.Smith points out that a developmental state should actually be trying to do everything possible to get people to use electricity because it is safer and has major equity and developmental benefits.
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