Civil society groups are planning to take to the streets of Cape Town’s city centre, ahead of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address on 9 February. They are demanding an end to Eskom’s rolling blackouts and the devastating impact it is having on daily life. On Wednesday evening, more than 80 residents, scholars, organisations, and members of civil society groups met at Bertha House in Salt River.
Read/listen: Nersa’s Nhlanhla Gumede on Eskom’s 18.65% tariff increase Under the #FixEskom campaign, they are demanding that load shedding end by December 2023 and they want Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe to be fired. Some of their other demands are: #UniteBehind director Zackie Achmat said they are encouraging people across the country to join the #FixEskom campaign. Achmat said that those who are unable to take to the streets in February can organise lunchtime pickets.
See how the few poor working class will be rented for a fee to fight a middle and upper class irritation with one particular working class Minister who the privileged white liberal minority don’t really like. Sad!
Fire him, yes.
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