Several measures are planned to reduce the burden of electricity price increases especially on the poor, electricity and energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa told MPs Thursday. 

The minister reiterated his previous comments that high electricity prices were untenable and unaffordable and had a profound effect on inflation and the cost of living. ..

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