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Eskom price hikes unavoidable - Gigaba

Johannesburg - The 16% electricity tariff hike every year for the next five years is unavoidable, Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Tuesday.

"It [the tariff increase] is not fair, [but] it is necessary," Gigaba said at a business breakfast in Fourways.

"Given the challenges that we have... we need to ask South Africans to bear the collective pain to fund this build programme and go through this painful process."

In October, Eskom submitted an application to the National Energy Regulator of SA for a 16% tariff hike every year for the next five years.

Gigaba said the poor needed to continue to be shielded. They would be charged a single-digit flat rate determined by municipalities.

Eskom asked municipalities to be considerate of their mark up when charging more for electricity, as it was a source of revenue, Gigaba added.

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