04/08/2024
Does anyone here still pay a “reliability charge” on their eskom bill? Read to the end.
Yes, South Africa does have anti-racketeering laws. The Prevention of Organized Crime Act (POCA) of 1998 is the primary legislation aimed at combating organized crime, including racketeering, in South Africa. POCA provides for measures to prevent and combat organized crime, money laundering, and criminal gang activities. It includes provisions for the seizure of assets obtained through criminal activities and the prosecution of individuals involved in racketeering and other related offenses.
Originally and often still specifically, racketeering may refer to a criminal act in which the perpetrators offer a service that will not be put into effect, offer a service to solve a nonexistent problem, or offer a service that solves a problem that would not exist without the racket. However, racketeers may also sometimes offer an ostensibly effectual service outside of the law to solve an actual existing problem.
If you pay a “reliability charge” on your eskom bill even for the days that you do not have power then it seems to me that you are on the wrong end of a 🏸
