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So we're going to be able to do that. Yes. Yes. So our electricity tariff is, you know, we're using as little uh electricity as possible. But, you know, the municipality now charging us sixty four percent more in terms of our electricity rates. I mean uh what we used to pay, I think it was two rand sixty four per

Per unit, we're now paying four rand something, which is as I've calculated to a 64% increase in per unit that they are charging us. So I mean, previously, and it has always been like that: we, if you're a low-consumption user, you get a lower rate than the rest of the people. I mean, as pensioners, how do we survive as pensioners? Yeah, so.

I'm sure you've applied for the relevant rebates to the city, right? That are available to you as a pensioner, at least when it comes to rates and services. I'm not sure how it works when it comes to electricity tariffs, but the city has always traditionally had a formula that factors in the value of your property. So if you have a property lower than 500,000 Rand or less, you get charged at a particular rate than if you have a property value.

At above a million rand, for example. And then, in addition to that, is the amount of electricity you consume. So, as lower, no, I don't have a problem with the rates issue because we've always been what they call the indigent rates because of the value of our property. But now the property was the value of the property was now increased by the municipality.

Which now automatically puts us in a higher rate. And, you know, this just now happened two months ago. So we haven't gone through the processes of having to apply for these things because we've always been in a lower consumption. And now, when we become, you know, pensioners, now suddenly things are being increased. And when the valuation process was underway, Shahid, you did not object to the proposed value that the city would have committed.

To you well, I mean, it didn't make any wasn't any relevance to me because I thought it was still under the value that would put us into a lower-income group in that sense. Sure, that's not the same. We didn't know the impact that couldn't help you. We didn't know, yeah, because we didn't know the impact that it's going to have in the future. But how does it become?