Loadshedding, a recently popularised word known by almost all South Africans. The motion of Eskom revoking electricity rights from civilians, the people who rightfully deserve their electricity by paying their bills. 

 

It is a commonly known fact, Eskom does not have enough energy or means to create energy to handle the whole powerframe of South Africa. Instead of finding alternative energy sources, or changing their plan of action, they force millions of South Africans to nonconsensually have their power turned off.

 

We, as South Africans, can do nothing about this, and have to accept our fate of near eternal darkness. Why do we, as the people, have to helpless? Why is there nothing we can do to stop this? Why do we allow a large corporation to bully us, and all we do is sit back and take the beating? 

 

This needs to change. The citizens of South Africa should not have to suffer anymore through these hardships, due to something they have no control over. We need to use our voice, in any way possible, to let the people at the top of the pyramid know we have means to make a change. We pay our electricity bills; we save power, where power could be saved, we do everything Eskom suggests us to do. Instead of losing this problem, of which we the people have been struggling with intermittently since 2007, we continue to struggle through it, with no light at the end of the very dark tunnel.

 

Eskom has made no developments to present new forms of electricity production, or material resourcing, and instead use this unappealing, yet easy for the company, strategy that no one can argue about, since Eskom is the sole provider of electricity to South Africa.

 

This petition was made to show Eskom how many people are upset at this unfair situation they have set up for South Africans, and how we are tired of them walking all over us. We need to stand up and take a stand against this issue. If we can win, we could take a few approaches to end Loadshedding. We could force Eskom to get their structure back into working place and not allow the easy way out, of Loadshedding, anymore. We could even find out the true reasons as to why we never have enough electricity to power South Africa. 

 

We can't be pushed in the dark any longer, it's time for us to take a stand against corruption.