No to Eskom's Price Increase

This Petition was created on the 27/03/2008 before the 1st price increase were I only received 52 signatures. The New CEO is Jacob Maroga. Eskom will now be asking for 45% per annum for 3 years, a total increase of 205% (in other words a tripling of the price of electricity), in addition to the increase that was already granted this year. Please send any comments to nevendran@gmail.com and not to the Standard Bank email address.

To:  Thulani Gcabashe - CEO of Eskom

The latest is that Eskom wants to raise our electricity rates by 53\% but most of us think that it is outrageous and unfair! Why should we pay for Eskom’s mistakes?

The government is prepared to spend R30+ billion on the stadiums for the 2010 World Cup, and a couple million on generators for these stadiums. Wouldn't it make more sense to give the money they are prepared to spend on generators to Eskom instead? Maybe then by 2010 they will be able to generate enough power to supply South Africa and generators will not be needed.

Eskom admits that more than 10 years ago they were aware that the current situation would arise. Instead of budgeting for it bonuses in the millions was paid out to the directors. We could write pages and pages about Eskom and their problems, but the bottom line is that Eskom messed up and should not hold us responsible to pay for this mistakes.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

The No to Eskom's Price Increase Petition to Thulani Gcabashe - CEO of Eskom was created by and written by Neven Subrayal (neven.subrayal@standardbank.co.za).  This petition is hosted here at www.PetitionOnline.com as a public service. There is no endorsement of this petition, express or implied, by Artifice, Inc. or our sponsors. For technical support please use our simple Petition Help form.