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Electricity tariffs and inequality: A system in crisis | SA News

South Africa’s electricity pricing system is no longer working for the majority of its people. 

What is presented as a technical exercise in tariff adjustment has become a mechanism that deepens inequality, entrenches energy poverty, and shifts the burden of systemic failure onto households who are least able to carry it.

Municipalities across the country are now applying to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) to increase the tariff. 

This follows on from the price hike that Nersa awarded to Eskom in 2025. 

eThekwini Municipality has applied for an average increase of 10.5%. That will bring the price of electricity to over R4.16 per kWh. 

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