Blackouts, tariff increase buckle small businesses

By Nomazima Nkosi, Zoe Mahopo and Mpho Koka - 16 January 2023 - 07:48

The Black Business Council (BBC) has warned that electricity blackouts and the 18,65% tariff increase would lead to more jobs being lost as small businesses buckled under the weight of Eskom's stage 6 loadshedding.

"There’s no electricity, and a lot of small business are closing down. A lot of these are the ones creating employment," BBC CEO Kganki Matabane said on Sunday...

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