Tshwane delays electricity tariff increases - for now
The Tshwane Metro has suspended the implementation of it's
much talked about electricity tariff increases until Monday.
Mayor, Stevens Mokgalapa, says the reason for the delay is to afford the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) time to conduct it's public engagements.
"It is really not a crisis, it is a publicity made crisis, but it is normal. Each and every year tariffs are put and Nersa makes a determination. We are confident, we will find one another," says Mokgalapa.
This comes after lobby group, AfriForum, applied for an urgent interdict in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, to prevent the tariff increases.
The case was postponement on Tuesday to give the parties involved, being AfriForum, the Metro and Nersa, space to resolve the issue amicably.
Nersa is expected to start community engagements at the Burgerspark Hotel in the Capital on Thursday morning and report back to the city within seven days.
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