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More than 12,000 jobs in poultry industry can be lost – SA industry was harmed by ANC regime when tons of frozen, poorer quality chicken carcasses where imported from USA

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The poultry industry is facing a new crisis that could cause more than 12,000 jobs to be lost in the industry.

The SA Poultry Association is accused of having employed a so-called “gate-waiting” strategy when applying their 82% tariff increase to poultry imports.

The application was sent to the International Trade Administration Committee, which has to make the decision in conjunction with the Department of Trade and Industry.

The suspicion is that a 66% increase in the import levy will be approved, but the unpredictability in the department may yield other surprises.

The poultry industry has suffered major losses over the past few years when the government imported tons of frozen chicken carcasses from the US, the grade of which is much weaker than the domestic product.

An increase with the import levy will protect the SA industry as farmers in the US and European countries are heavily subsidized and, consequently, can
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Urban municipalities’ power-shock – Prepaid electricity charges cause huge uproar from consumers

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The City Council of Johannesburg quietly withdrew the new prepaid electricity rate charged to consumers.

The application of the municipal levy came as a surprise because it was not included in the proposed budget of the CityPower’s tariff document released in March.

The R200 levy was quietly withdrawn and was not charged against consumers on July 1, and would initially be part of the tariff, but could also be seen as an illegal act.

In Pretoria, the city council apparently illegally increased their electricity tariffs without any consent, causing them to defend their actions in court.

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Eskom’s prior request for tariff hike slammed: Eskom’s stage 4 load shedding is a direct attempt to sabotage, and blackmail SA – Ordinary citizens are becoming the scapegoat to foot the bill of its complete and utter failures and lack of planning

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The South African Communist Party says Eskom’s management is rolling out massive blackouts in an attempt to blackmail South Africans to accept privatisation of the power utility.

Eskom resumed with loadshedding for the first time this year on Sunday.

Power cuts continued yesterday and Tuesday after a failure of generating units.

“The management of Eskom, in the manner that they are rolling out these blackouts, is trying to blackmail us so we must accept whatever should befall Eskom. We should not be blackmailed into that. That’s why we believe that these blackouts can be avoided,” SACP first deputy general secretary Solly Mapaila stated.

Mapaila said one of reasons given by Eskom for load shedding was low stocks of diesel.

“Why can’t they procure enough diesel on time? It is all of those things that I think are just unacceptable. The reasons why there were blackouts and so forth were issues of leadership incompetence. W
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Price shock beckons if Nersa authorize Eskom’s request- National power provider demands 45% increase in tariffs – Now taxpayers have to pay for state institution’s incompetence

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National power provider, Eskom’s application to Nersa will be heard in Cape Town next week.

Nersa has already approved a 4.41% increase, but now Eskom is demanding 15% annually over the next three years, which is three times the official inflation figure.

Energy expert Ted Blom says the application should be scrapped until the forensic audit is completed on the statecapture that took place at Eskom.

Experts have disclosed a different outlook on this situation by pointing out that the power tariffs are already too high and should rather be lowered, especially in view of the fact that power is being sold to neighboring countries at far lower rates than charged to South-Africa itself.

The power provider also indicated that load shedding could be reinstated next week, which would further crippled the economy.

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