Howard, You seems so angry with yourself, in that when I send that pronouncement, it was to assist you and other to really evaluate the impact of this increase and not some insunuations that seeks to defibe populism. For starters, it does not affect CSIR and other National Key Points at all. We have as my responsibilities ensure that the SOE (CSIR) is insulated from the ripple effect of this increase. Over the past 3 years that the CSIR sought my services I have develop a Business Continuity Plan that is interlinked to Sustainable Development and look at ways to reduce our demand by 10% yearly without affecting the operations. When I did this with my team one thing in my mind was the impact I anticipated for the general workers. Researcher just like any specialist or project managers can go to any research body/ other SOEs and they will be fine. The CSIR in its beyond 60 programme did look at the energy portfolio and had to create a dedicated energy management portfolio for this matter. We have been active advisors to the Ministry of Energy, Public Enterprises, Science and Technology and Trade and Industry and knew the magnitude of the leap in tariff increase we are to see in the next 20 years. We have provided our expert opinion on the matter and are confident that with also some dedicated wenergy reserach centres and units, we could not be caught off-guard. By your own admission you think that as an entity we are worried about your insinuations which are cheap, you must go and study the model used to classify yourself in all those categories of RED1 to RED6 in terms of geographical spread of the networks. RED1 (Western and Northern Cape) RED 2 ( Eastern Cape) RED3 (Ekurhuleni up to Free State) RED 4 (JHB up to North West) RED 5 (KZN) RED6 (Tshwane up to Limpopo) Having said so there tariff classification that signals that despite the 24.8% and 25% the following year, Munics or distributors in these demarcated areas will have price increase to the range and on top of that is the incremental or Step Tariff that aim to punish those household that use more electricity while there is no such provision for Industrial and Commercial customers who might have long term agreements. Having able to give you an understanding on this matter I hope you will stop insulting us when we genuinely ask you to look at issues that matters most. By the way I am a bread winner, being the 1st born and having enough siblings that are all covered by my policies including incase I get laid off. Which is not gona be the case because I do not boost that I posses critical rare and scarce skills. I could wake up tomorrow and get a job wherever and that opportunity that I have not all members of society has,, I do not look for a job, but the different employers look for my skills and it mean I am not affected but that not the case why I sent this statement to the site. Yes this increase will have an impact on the Agririan Reform Programme, it will make it difficult for farmers to produce on large scale as electricity will account for the large portion of their operational costs. This will results in retrenchment affecting families and not mine for that matter. It will make it difficult for a customer who is on the backbone of Municis network to afford to pay for the steep increase that will be adjusted once munics price (including surcharges and admin costs) are added, resulting in massive retrenchments. It will affect all SMMEs, it wil affect the Middle Class most and the poor are still cushioned for the two year period on conditions they remain in their brackets for indegent customers. It will affect you mining house, as they will need to recapitalise the energy or electricity costs somewhere, which might mean labour cut off, it might means hiring you and you brother as cheap labour or brokered such that they do not pay you any benefits and not insults that are unfounded and baseless. If indeed you are a reader, you will put the IPAP2 on one side and put NERSA paper on the other and run some model to look at the efficiency of this tariff increase on our industrial policy action plan. The impact is massive, the automotive industry that rely heavily on electricity will be hit worse, the Brits tyre industry will be worse off. Claim no easy victory, this is what matters most engage the public, educate them, make them understand such that when Municipalities call for public hearing on their increases towards July 2010, members will be well off. Like they say an empty tin makes a lot of noice. I remain Netshirofhe wa Ha-Mutshidza
>>> howard matjomane <[email protected]> 2/24/2010 2:22 PM >>> Well my assesment tells me that CSIR would spend two third of their revenue in electricity which means bussiness decision would have to be taken and some amongst those is that some research Plants would be closed resulting in you being retrenched.and that would mean about 7 family members would have to suffer while you looking for a new job and you will be crying with red eyes for assistance from Drunkard affiliates of Cosatu to fight the restructuring. In the name of workers struggle! Amen On 2/24/10, Nndwamato Mutshidza <[email protected]> wrote: > Cdes, lets digest this and evaluate its impact on the society. > > > > > -- > This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail > legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. > The full disclaimer details can be found at > http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. > > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by > MailScanner, > and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for > their support. > > -- > You are subscribed. This footer can help you. > Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to > this message. > You can visit the group WEB SITE at > http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery > options, pages, files and membership. > To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . > You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to > put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to > this address (repeat): [email protected] . > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support. -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
