Deputy Chairperson, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the Council, I will move:
That the Council -
(1) notes that -
(a) to a question asked by Mrs Elza van Lingen, in a committee meeting, to the Department of Energy Director-General, Neliswa Magubane, about what percentage of electricity was sold to the industry at between 6c and 9c per kWh, the answer was given that Eskom cannot reveal information due to commercial sensitivities around the situation;
(b) this is unacceptable and a crime to the South African citizens who have to bear the huge costs of electricity prices of 80c per kWh;
(c) due to Eskom's bad planning and this uneven price tagging, as well as other factors, the huge number of electricity consumers now have to absorb the burden laid on them; and
(2) therefore calls on the Department of Energy and on Nersa to make this information known to the committee and this Council, so that the citizens and voters can be informed of which companies and other electricity buyers have these privileges to buy electricity at such low costs.