Law firm to sue Eskom on behalf of SA citizens affected by load shedding

De Beer Attorneys plans to argue that the struggling utility’s recent bout of load shedding was the result of negligence.is encouraging South Africans to come forward with stories of financial losses caused by the recent spate of load shedding, as part of a planned class-action lawsuit against Eskom, due to the impact planned power outages have had on local businesses.

“We have received a lot of interest and are calling people to come forward to strengthen the case,” Bergenthuin“A cookie company, for example, which makes 10,000 cookies a day, could prove that, as a result of load shedding, they were able to make 5,000 cookies. They could show a loss in profit.” The utility has also publicly stated that they are indemnified against the kind of losses they will be taken to task for in the law suit.

South Africa recently underwent an intense period of load shedding due to what the utility described as a lack of capacity.,

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

How's the case going?

And who else will be the beneficiary of this class action besides the law firm?

Agenda to run down the power utility? Driving this that they want to achieve.

This law firm does not have a name?

cci_network Imagine getting sued by 57+million people...

NixKZN1 What are they gonna sue them for? Whatever it is will be funded by the taxpayers as Eskom is taxpayer funded and broke.

I we going to get a share of the proceeds?

cci_network Can we just sue the entire bloody government for pain & suffering.

Please sue healthcare and education departments too please !

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