{"id":326565,"date":"2019-07-01T08:19:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T06:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=326565"},"modified":"2019-07-01T08:19:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T06:19:03","slug":"joburg-water-and-electricity-price-hikes-come-into-effect-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/326565\/joburg-water-and-electricity-price-hikes-come-into-effect-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Joburg water and electricity price hikes come into effect on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg residents will pay more for their municipal rates from Monday 1 July 2019 as the city&#8217;s new increases take effect.<\/p>\n<p>According to the city&#8217;s 2019\/2020 tariff reports, some of the most notable increases include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 9.9% increase in the cost of water;<\/li>\n<li>A 5.5% increase in property rates;<\/li>\n<li>A 13.07% increase in electricity;<\/li>\n<li>A 7% increase in refuse removal (solid waste).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The municipal rate increases come as South Africans face financial pressure after months of petrol price increases, job cuts, and a battered economy.<\/p>\n<p>The one silver lining is a drop in the petrol price from Wednesday, 3 July 2019. <strong>Petrol is set to decline by 95 cents and 96 cents per litre<\/strong> for 95 and 93 grades, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel will come <strong>down by 75 cents and 76 cents per litre<\/strong> for 0.05% sulphur content and 0.005% sulphur content, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Member of the Mayoral Committee for Finance in the City of Johannesburg, Funzela Ngobeni, told the SABC that the National Energy Regulator of South Africa\u2019s (NERSA) decision to grant Eskom a more than 41% tariff increase has forced the city to hike its tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the city\u2019s electricity tariff will rise from an originally proposed 12.20%, to 13.07% across all categories on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>You can find a more detailed breakdown of the tariff hikes <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joburg.org.za\/documents_\/Pages\/Key%20Documents\/other\/links\/tariffs\/Tariffs.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/property\/326049\/new-south-african-rental-laws-may-be-implemented-soon-these-are-the-changes-you-need-to-know-about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New South African rental laws may be implemented soon \u2013 these are the changes you need to know about<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg residents will be paying more for their municipal rates from 1 July 2019 as the city&#8217;s new increases take effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":234079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-326565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326565"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326595,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326565\/revisions\/326595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}