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February 1, 2008
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l Mr President and cohorts, I will accept your apology when you admit, not to the power crisis, but to your racist "transformation" policy that led to the best skills in the country being told "we don't want or need you".

l Force people to use 10% to 20% less power but - and here is the con - Eskom still pushes up the cost by 10% to 20%, thus effectively doubling its increase. My rates payment has also doubled because of current market valuation yet there have been no improvements to services. We're being screwed. The time has come to make a unified stand.

l It's about time the Christmas lights all over Cape Town were switched off. I live in Sea Point ...

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