DA to request debate of national importance on rising cost of living
2 February 2022
The DA will write to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, to request a debate of national importance regarding the rising cost of living in South Africa.
Eskom’s announcement of Stage 2 loadshedding starting again today, the ludicrous proposed tariff increases for a power utility that cannot provide consistent power, and the fuel and paraffin price hikes are crippling South African households.
The nearly 40 000 people that signed the DA’s petition to stop the electricity tariff hike, shows that South Africans are sick and tired of the constant increases to the cost of living.
But it’s more than mere outrage; for millions of people living in South Africa it is a case of life or death. They cannot afford to light their homes, travel to their jobs (if they’re part of the 50% that have jobs) or buy food for their families. They cannot cut their budgets any finer. They have no more cents to turn twice. They are starving. Yet the ANC government callously continues to bleed them dry and push them into deeper poverty. Death by a thousand cuts.