Recently it was reported in Paarl Post that the public’s electricity bills will not really be lower due to load shedding because of various reasons. Such as geysers, etc which go into overload once the power comes back on after load shedding.
I don’t fully agree with this at all and I seriously suspect a snake in the grass. The reason being that because with the usage of electricity reduced with load shedding, it means less money for the municipality and they then have to bamboozle the public to regain this money.
My question is: In March, at the height of summer and because we work from home, my aircon works continuously as well, my electricity account was R2 600. Now suddenly, and after more than a month of serious power outages, it is R4 800.
Okay, I know that our tariffs increased this year by almost 7,50%, but this should not lead to my electricity bill almost doubling.
In fact, it should currently be quite a bit less as we have not been using air conditioning. Everything else remains the same, and we have a gas geyser.
This spike in usage makes me seriously doubt the municipality’s defence of why bills remain the same despite many hours of load shedding.
I am convinced that they have a way of stealing electricity from us to line their financial coffers.
