PRESS RELEASE: SOUTH DURBAN COMMUNITY PICKET AND MOBILISES THE COMMUNITIES AGAINST ESKOM

The SDCEA and its affiliates are hosting several public meetings to bring to the attention of the public that ESKOM has made application to the National Energy Regulator South Africa to increase its ELECTRICITY TARIFF’S BY 35% for 2010 /2011 to 2012. Eskom is South Africa’s biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change, and wants to continue increasing their emissions by expanding their coal fired power stations.

Note how this article conflates community connections and copper cable theft - two completely different things....and how threats from above are normalized while a threat from below, with a clearly spelled out logic, is 'bizarre'...

http://www.dailynews.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=vn20080820111834480C857906

'No one can have it if we can't'
20 August 2008, 12:14

By Heinz de Boer

"If you remove our cables, you had better move all the power from the area. No-one can have it if we are not allowed to (have electricity)."