SA households to get relief on the cost of electricity: Ramokgopa

South African households will soon get relief on the cost of electricity. This is according to electricity and energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, who was speaking to SABC News on the sidelines of the 2026 SA Nuclear and Clean Energy Conference in Centurion, Pretoria.

He says whilst the loadshedding crisis has been resolved, consumers have been struggling to keep up with the high electricity prices.

Ramokgopa says he’s been working with Eskom on a new price reprieve that will be outlined before the end of the year.

“We’ve got access generating capacity now, I am sure there’s 4 000 MW that is idling, how best do you use those instruments to resolve the cost of electricity, we have asked the chair to think of that, we’ve got ideas we’ve planted with the CEO we think that there has to be an intervention and a relief very soon, what that is, I will share with the country very soon before we break on the 15th of December, what are this things we can do now it’s very tough, it’s exceptionally tough for all of us but more disproportionate to the poor.”