{"id":7957,"date":"2012-03-18T20:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=7957"},"modified":"2012-03-18T20:03:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T18:03:02","slug":"joburg-billing-mess-under-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/7957\/joburg-billing-mess-under-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Joburg billing mess under the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Minister Obed Bapela will meet with Johannesburg mayor Parks Tau on Monday to discuss the city&#8217;s ongoing billing saga.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The meeting aims to identify solutions that will enable the deputy minister&#8217;s office to adequately address the reported challenges in a bid to find a long-term solution,&#8221; government communications said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was prompted by the influx of complaints to the presidential hotline.<\/p>\n<p>In November the city said it would seek to fix incorrect bills, improve the quality of meter readings and update customer information, which had been plaguing residents for years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The deputy minister hopes that the meeting will enable his office to adequately address the reported challenges and hopefully find a long term and lasting solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, to be held in Braamfontein, would also be attended by members of the mayoral committee responsible for the billing system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obed Bapela will meet with Johannesburg mayor Parks Tau on Monday to discuss the city&#8217;s ongoing billing saga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26,1995,1996,1997,1998],"class_list":["post-7957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline","tag-joburg","tag-johannesburg","tag-obed-bapela","tag-parks-tau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7961,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957\/revisions\/7961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}