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Consumers worry over suffocating Eskom tariffs

ELECTRICITY

Households are caught between a rock and hard place as they try to navigate a difficult course through the high cost of living, and the increases in electricity prices will suffocate many of them.

This is the view from different quarters including business and civic bodies as municipalities are set to forge ahead with Eskom-aligned electricity price hikes.

This week the eThekwini Municipality confirmed

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