ActionSA Gauteng criticises Ekurhuleni mayor for blaming NERSA for the electricity surcharge [SOUND]

# ActionSA in Gauteng says it notes with outrage the latest attempt by Ekurhuleni mayor, Nkosindiphile Xhakaza, to shift the blame for the punitive 126-rand fixed electricity surcharge onto the National Energy Regulator of South Africa. The mayor claims NERSA prescribed the surcharge. ActionSA’s Zwelithini Mtshali says NERSA does not prescribe municipal tariffs; it approves what municipalities submit. He says they are calling for the immediate and permanent scrapping of the fixed electricity surcharge in all Gauteng metros: