Ramokgopa’s free electricity proposal looks more like election politics
At first glance, the ANC’s plan to give free electricity to everybody who receives any form of government social grant – which is a staggering 26 million-plus people at last count – seems like just another example where the maths isn’t quite math-ing, in a sort of “eleventy” or “firepool” way.
And it’s not just any old electricity freebie the party is considering handing out – no less a figure than Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa believes that the current 50kWh a month allocation for indigent households can be increased sixfold, to 300kWh monthly.
View Map Energy analyst Chris Yelland said the plan shouldn’t be “trumpeted as a great achievement”, because the largesse proposed by the ANC would cost an extra R80 billion a year.
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