{"id":964231,"date":"2024-07-04T04:59:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T04:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964231"},"modified":"2024-07-04T04:59:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T04:59:20","slug":"da-urges-city-power-to-reconsider-new-electricity-surcharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/da-urges-city-power-to-reconsider-new-electricity-surcharge\/","title":{"rendered":"DA urges City Power to reconsider new electricity surcharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Johannesburg has urged the City Council and City Power to reconsider the newly introduced R200 surcharge for prepaid electricity.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the party condemned the 12.7% tariff hike and the additional fee imposed on prepaid customers as unjust and unfair.<\/p>\n<p>The DA warned that this move will disproportionately affect residents, who are already seeing a significant reduction in the value of their electricity purchases due to the surcharge.<\/p>\n<p>DA Joburg Councillor Nicole Van Dyk says residents in the city are bearing the brunt of this tariff.<\/p>\n<p>Van Dyk says, \u201cCity Power is currently sitting with a R40 billion overdraft because they are dealing with non-payers. Prepaid is a great incentive to get your money upfront, but now you&#8217;re penalizing those people who are paying upfront for the power they are going to be using.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She adds: &#8220;However, there&#8217;s still a 12.5 % increase on power, there&#8217;s also a 7.7% increase on your water use and a further 5% on refuse. The residents in the city of JHB are constantly asked to be resilient.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PODCAST | DA Joburg Councillor Nicole Van Dyk&#8217;s full interview on SAfm&#8217;s First Take:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"DA voices opposition to the R200 electricity surcharge\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/first-take-sa\/da-voices-opposition-to-the-r200-electricity-surch\/embed?style=Cover\" width=\"360%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The party condemned the 12.7% tariff hike and additional fee imposed on Joburg prepaid customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":964232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[571,211,234,339,214,572],"class_list":["post-964231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-city-council","tag-city-power","tag-da","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-johannesburg","tag-nicole-van-dyk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}