Kevin Mileham MP

Exposing an electricity price heist! Prices have gone up by over 900% and you’re paying the price. 📺Watch the DA’s Kelvin Mileham unpack how electricity costs have gone up. We demand accountability & an independent audit of NERSA to ensure affordable electricity.

@NiallStanage +?+±+!!!¹1Q

Trump: “Mortgage rates are the lowest in four years and falling fast.” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 30-year fixed rate mortgage, average rate, last five years:

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Eskom Chair @mteton and CEO Dan Marakoane's plan is not the unbundling South Africa was promised. It is a partial restructuring that preserves the core structural bottleneck—and risks turning creditor complexity into an all-purpose excuse for reform drift. It is entirely possible to create an independent transmission company with its own assets, and manage creditor concerns with clear leadership and purpose, as has been demonstrated internationally. We're at a critical juncture. Let's make the decision in South Africa Inc's interest not the short term convenience of @Eskom_SA managers 12/.

In a @BDliveSA oped published today, @Eskom_SA Chief Executive, Dan Marokane, has sought to rebut criticisms of his revised Eskom unbundling strategy that seeks to hold onto transmission assets. Let’s examine his arguments 1/ businessday.co.za/opinion/2026-0…

@ForGoodZA So instead of saying NO, you abstain, and allow the post to be created anyway??? Make it make sense!

GOOD National Chairperson & Councillor Matthew Cook warns against creating an Executive Deputy Mayor post at R1.28m/year, without clear outcomes, just months before elections. 💡 Good governance is about accountability & delivery, not more political offices. #GOODParty #UniteforChange #Johannesburg #Accountability #ServiceDelivery

@VimleshRajbansi Nice try. Sovereign guarantees are necessary to obtain those loans. Our balance sheet can't afford it. Also, how much have we spent on Koeberg's life extension? Do you know? Does anyone? Because they keep saying "its on budget" - based on a R20bn figure in 2010.

@kmileham Koeberg is a great example of how nuclear can be done properly. It was built in the 1970s by the French — funded with loans & repaid over time through electricity tariffs. They built the whole plant & handed it over ready to run.

#NuclearRegrets 2023: Kevin Mileham, the DA’s Shadow Minister of Mineral Resources & Energy said he did not support the 9600MW nuclear build in 2017, and he doesn’t now. 2025: Minister of Electricity concedes they made mistakes about nuclear that led to load-shedding

@VimleshRajbansi * goat's We need to invest in transmission. Not vanity projects.

@VimleshRajbansi You still hav to put up sovereign guarantees (and no, the goat's proposed Credit Guarantee Vehicles are little more than offtake agreements), which means is IS going on the country's balance sheet. In our financial/economic situation, nuclear should NOT be a priority right now.

@VimleshRajbansi The question is whether we can AFFORD the infrastructure. Especially seeing as it willmonly cone online 10 to 15 years down the line....

@kmileham Any big infrastructure cost eventually gets passed on to users anyway. The real issue isn’t nuclear itself — it’s making sure the ANC doesn’t get anywhere near the nuclear budget. There must be solid, transparent systems in place to monitor the project —to prevent corruption

@VimleshRajbansi Oh Vimlesh, how I've missed you! Have you asked whi is going to pay for the (~R1 trillion) nuclear new build? Because I have.... Hint: It's the ordinary South African - either through increased taxes or through higher electricity prices.

2023

🤩 Good news for SA from the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement! ✅ Lowering of government debt ✅ Spending review to cut waste and save R6,7 billion ✅ Full audit of ghost workers Watch as Dr Mark Burke, the DA's Spokesperson on Finance, unpacks some of the announcements.

📈 For 15 years, the DA has been championing the lowering of government debt. Finally, this has been achieved! Every rand wasted on interest is a rand stolen from building schools, improving hospitals, and creating jobs. Less debt means more money for you and better delivery.

@Airports_ZA How is it possible to only have one security checkpoint open at King Shaka?

@MotlalepulaMa11 @DugmoreN71068 @Nathanxog @HermanMashaba And...crickets.

@MotlalepulaMa11 @DugmoreN71068 @Nathanxog @HermanMashaba Does this help you? iol.co.za/news/politics/…

The truth is @HermanMashaba was forced out of the DA because Helen Zille couldn’t handle the fact that he was becoming more popular than her. That’s why they wanted to remove him as mayor.

@MotlalepulaMa11 @DugmoreN71068 @Nathanxog @HermanMashaba Look at your claims: first you said the first DA Federal Congress was held in 2007. I've disproved that. Then you said "April 2002 isn't a date", so I got specific. Now you are calling me a liar for providing the facts. Were you there?

@kmileham @DugmoreN71068 @Nathanxog @HermanMashaba Liar 2002 they were appointed the same way ACTIONSA leadership is appointed.

@MotlalepulaMa11 @DugmoreN71068 @Nathanxog @HermanMashaba What do i have to gain by lying?

@MotlalepulaMa11 @DugmoreN71068 @Nathanxog @HermanMashaba I've attended as a voting delegate to every Federal Congress since 2004, and can personally confirm that these elections took place where positions were contested. Not every position was contested at every Congress.

@MotlalepulaMa11 @DugmoreN71068 @Nathanxog @HermanMashaba The Federal Congress of DA ended on 13 April 2002. Tony Leon elected as Federal Leader, Joe Seremane as Federal Chair and James Selfe as Chair of Fed Council. Elective congresses held on 21 Nov 2004 5 May 2007 24 Jul 2010 24 Nov 2012 9 May 2015 8 Apr 2018 31 Oct 2020 1 Apr 2023

@MotlalepulaMa11 @DugmoreN71068 @Nathanxog @HermanMashaba Wrong. First elective Congress was in April 2002. The DA was formed in June 2000. Prior to that, the parties that joined up to become the DA had all had regular elective Congresses.

@DugmoreN71068 @Nathanxog @HermanMashaba DA was democrats yet Tony Leon was an appointed leader. They held their first Conference in 2007