Tshwane Municipality Domestic Post Paid Electricity Tariffs

The Electricity in the Tshwane Municipality is charged on a sliding scale.
The following explanation gives an idea of how to work out what your domestic electricity is costing you:

Question: Please could you also show how these rates that you have included convert 1057 kWh to R1316.16.

Answer (from NothembaG@TSHWANE.GOV.ZA): The electricity rates table is as follows:

    Band           2011 July 01 to 2012 Jun 30   2012 July 01 to 2013 Jun 30 
i)   1- 100 kWh      R0.9694                               R1.0179
ii)  101-400 k        R1.0294                               R1.1385
iii) 401-650 kWh   R1.0844                               R1.2037
iv)  >650               R1.1554                              R1.2825


I will use the example below: 1057kwh for 27 days.

27/30 *100kwh  = 90 kwh which will be charged with the first tariff rate

27/30*300kwh = 270kwh

27/30*250kwh = 225kwh


1057kwh – 90-270-225 = 472 kwh will be charged with the last rate


I have forwarded to you how the calculations were done, you just add 14% vat to get R1316.16.  R1154.53 *14% = 1316.16

Banks

I noticed that a complaint had been laid with hellopeter about an increase in bank fees at FNB.

 http://www.hellopeter.com/first-national-bank/complaints/safe-custody-fees-increased-625-without-notice-8479hellopeter.com/first-national-bank/complaints/safe-custody-fees-increased

 I have had a similar experience with FNB's exorbitant increases. Have others also experienced this? Maybe the time has come for people to form a society in which we draw up contracts for our accounts with banks such that our rights are protected. At the moment the legal documentation that we sign when we open a bank account is heavily weighted in the bank's favour. If enough people insist on having their own terms, then perhaps we will be a force that the banks will have to listen to. If a particular bank does not listen to us we can boycott that bank and sell any shares in that bank that we might have owned. What do others think?

Beauty, Truth and Justice

For some time I have wondered about the core values that are needed in an educational institution, or for that matter in any institution and the three that come to mind are Beauty, Truth and Justice. In Northern Sotho they would be Botse, Therešo and Thoka. In some way they are covered by the concept of "Botho" (or Ubuntu in the Nguni languages) which is roughly translated as a person's humanity to fellow people. The typical idiom that encapsulates this is "motho ke motho ka batho" or in English - a person is a person because of other people.

This note on the web covers these values quite well and it can be seen that the ideas of striving for beauty, truth and the pursuit of excellence extends back into antiquity. I think these days justice is just as important given the iniquitous inequalities that exist in the world when access to wealth, basic services and education is considered.

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/hutchison/040112

Also the following link describes Plato's theory of forms

http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/platform.htm