Cape Town mayor objects to Eskom’s request for 20.5% tariff hike

Cape Town is asking South African state-owned power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. to withdraw its request for a 20.5% increase in tariffs for 2022/23, saying residents of the country’s second-largest city can’t afford the hike. “That is totally unfordable, unfair and will do profound damage to our economy and families here in Cape Town,” Geordin Hill-Lewis, mayor of Cape Town, said on the Democratic Alliance’s Twitter account. The DA is the country’s opposition party and governs the Western Cape province.