Die uitvoerende burgemeester van die Breedevallei-munisipaliteit (BVM), Antoinette Steyn, het \u2019n ope brief geskryf waarin sy beswaar maak teen die Nasionale Energiereguleerder van Suid-Afrika (Nersa) se besluit op \u2019n tariefverhoging.<\/p>\n
Nersa het verlede week aangekondig dat hy Eskom se versoek om \u2019n tariefverhoging goedgekeur het. Eskom het aanvanklik vir \u2019n 30%-verhoging gevra, maar \u2019n styging van 18,65% is toegestaan.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs burgemeester van die BVM en namens alle kiesers wat binne die grense van ons pragtige Vallei woon en werk, voeg ek ons gesamentlike oproep by vir die onmiddellike herroeping van die tariefverhoging wat deur Nersa aan Eskom toegestaan is,\u201d lui die skrywe. <\/p>\n
Steyn brei ook verder uit oor die verwoestende sosiaal-ekonomiese impak wat die Covid-19-pandemie op inwoners gehad het. <\/p>\n
\u201cHiermee saam is Eskom geteister deur toenemende vlakke van verval in sy bestuurs- en bedryfsvermo\u00eb, wat daartoe lei dat meedo\u00ebnlose en onmenslike vlakke van beurtkrag oor die land heen ge\u00efmplementeer word.\u201d <\/p>\n
Hierdie verskynsel het volgens Steyn die positiewe vordering wat in die munisipaliteit se post-Covid- sosiaal-ekonomiese herstelproses gemaak is, uitgewis. Sy verduidelik ook dat dit verder \u2019n verwoestende impak op die geesteswelstand en gesondheid van alle inwoners en aspekte reg deur die samelewing het, aangesien elektrisiteit, onder sekere fases van beurtkrag, vir agt tot twaalf uur per dag nie beskikbaar is nie.<\/p>\n
\u201cDie regering \u2013 nog belangriker die plaaslike regering wat op grondvlak dien \u2013 dra die swaarste aan hierdie ongunstige eksogene toestande. Ons ervaar gevolglik toenemende ongelykheid tussen ons beskikbare hulpbronnepoel en die gemeenskap se eise en verwagtinge. Sou hierdie tariefverhoging gehandhaaf word, is die ongelukkige werklikheid dat munisipaliteite dit in sy komende tariefstruktuur sal moet absorbeer en dit uiteindelik aan verbruikers sal moet deurgee. Die kwesbares en behoeftiges sal ongelukkig die hardste getref word.<\/p>\n
\u201cEffektief sal die tariefverhoging verlammende druk op die sosiaal-ekonomiese ruggraat van die samelewing uitoefen en onherroeplike gevolge inhou. <\/p>\n
\u201cOns herhaal en smeek dus dat die tariefverhoging van 18,65% herroep en herbereken word in ooreenstemming met die inflasion\u00eare riglyne om die las vir die burgerlike samelewing te verminder.\u201d<\/p>\n
Steyn hoop om saam met ander rolspelers en burgemeesters van die land \u2019n wesenlike impak te h\u00ea met hierdie soort skrywes om sodoende die gemeenskap by te staan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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