The municipality of Tshwane is making lot of profit through electricity. The amount that ESKOM is charging for a unit is unreasonable; Tshwane is charging extra because they want to benefit. ESKOM is charging 25 cents per unit whereas Tshwane is charging 70 cents.
In 1994, Tshwane municipality made an agreement with ESKOM according to which the municipality would be responsible for the management of electricity within all Tshwane communities. As it is the case for water, rubbish and the (...)

SCDF stands for Soshanguve Community Development Forum. This organisation was formed in May 2003 and already has more than 150 members. We, as people of the Soshanguve Community in Tshwane (near Pretoria), started this forum because we realised that it is very important to group people and to fight against the effects of privatisation of basic services. We fight privatisation because we don’t want water cut-offs, pre-paid meters and so on; that’s why we are also affiliated to APF (...)