Joburg offers relief on Prepaid Electricity tariff
9 July 2019
The City of Johannesburg will not be implementing the fixed surcharge for prepaid electricity as adopted by Council recently.
The fixed surcharge of R200 per month for prepaid residential and R402 per month for business prepaid customers was approved by council as part of the annual tariff increases.
The approved surcharge aimed to better align pre-paid tariffs to conventional tariffs and was due to be implemented on 1 July 2019. However, this has been suspended pending further engagement with all relevant stakeholders.
Member of the Mayoral Committee for Finance, Cllr Funzela Ngobeni says that consumers are already burdened by increasing interest rates, pressure on household disposable income and the sluggish economy.