In The Eye Of The Storm- Rise of the Second Revolution Against the ANC Government...

hardship in the country." Yet, the same ANC-led government was at its best when delivering services for the FIFA cronies' whims and hews.

"These blackouts have hit the working class and the poor the hardest. While the rich can buy generators and eat at restaurants, the poor must live in darkness without food because there is no electricity to cook. Meanwhile, Eskom bosses pay themselves big salaries and undeserved bonuses.

Eskom is demanding a 53% tariff increase barely 3 months after causing an uproar when it applied for an 18% increase and only managed to get away with 14%.

"About 85% of the country's electricity is used by big business, that is, most of the electricity used is used to make profits. Big business pays about 8 cents per kilowatt-hour while domestic users pay about 26 cents. The abuse of the country's electricity by the capitalists can be seen in the long-term deals Eskom makes with aluminum smelter bosses that get them huge amounts of electricity for as little as 3 cents per unit. It is the workers and the poor who pay for the capitalist crisis. Banks can go bust and companies fold, but it is ordinary people who pay with their jobs and lost savings while the directors get bail-outs from the government (Ngwenya) On November, dark clouds crept into Orlando East where the people went on a rampage. A series of meetings had been called-for by the Soweto Electric Crisis Committee, which is a community organization that was formed in 2000 to fight against Eskom's cutting the electricity supple to 20,000 houses per month in Soweto as part of its cost recovery program. Eskom was under instruction from the Minister of Public Enterprises, Jeff Radebe, who wanted to make Eskom attractive to investors by dangling profits and making sure everyone pays for electricity.

The SECC operated the Operation Khanyisa[Operation Lights On], whereby if Eskom cut off a resident, the SECC would re-connect it. The campaign gained momentum forcing Radebe to make a deal with residents that involved a moratorium on cut-offs, and scrapping of residents' debts amounting to over a billion Rands. Some local Soweto civic organizations have already joined hands with SECC to form the Coalition Against the Electricity Crisis in South Africa.