South Africa has new electricity pricing rules after 18 years: what it gets right and wrong
To protect poor households, the final policy should guarantee them a minimum amount of free electricity nationwide, or set out how this minimum will be introduced over time.
However, the new draft pricing policy does not guarantee poor households more free electricity.
The new pricing policy’s weakness When free basic electricity was introduced in 2003, impoverished households received 50kWh per month.
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