By Thulani Dasa
Cape Town - This is my humble call to all scattered, hungered, bewildered South Africans, from whom justice has been withheld, who have become the victims of the carelessness, the avarice and greed of leaders who in their desire for wealth and power have destroyed our power utility.
For too long we have watched from the sidelines as corrupt and self-serving ANC leaders have mismanaged taxpayers’ money on Eskom.
Lets join hands and support the call for the “Power to the People” march to the ANC headquarters at Luthuli House in Johannesburg on January 25 against the ANC-engineered electricity crisis.
We invite all concerned South Africans to join us to voice their anger at the ANC’s destruction of our country’s energy infrastructure and economy, and to demand urgent solutions to this escalating crisis.
The Power to the People march will specifically target Luthuli House, because this is the scene of the crime that the ANC continues to perpetrate against the people of South Africa through continuous stage 6 load shedding and the latest 18.65% electricity tariff increase.
It is at Luthuli House where, over the past three decades, the decisions were made to “deploy” the corrupt and incompetent cadres who plundered and destroyed Eskom.
It is at Luthuli House that corrupt contracts were handed out, including for the ill-fated construction of the Medupi and Kusile power stations that have cost our country so dearly.
South Africa needs to show the ANC in no uncertain terms that we are united against their uncaring and unfair treatment of households and businesses, and that we will not accept it any longer.
We are fed up with paying for ANC corruption and mismanagement. We do not accept, and we cannot afford, the 18.65% increase this year or the 12.74% next year, which is an increase of 33.77% over the next two years.
Households are battling to put food on the table. Businesses are struggling to pay their staff. Stage 6 load shedding is costing South Africa between four and six billion rand per day.
Cape Times
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