Consumers brace themselves ahead of April electricity tariff increase

So, come April this year, the price of electricity is will increase. South African consumers will have to fork out more for electricity from April this year, as power tariffs will increase by about ten percent. This comes after the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) yesterday announced its revised decisions on retroactive power tariff applications from the power giant, Eskom. The energy regulator will allow Eskom to recover an extra R6bn from consumers following court-ordered reviews of previous decisions.