Johannesburg's proposed price increase for water is 9.9%. It wants 13.07% more for electricity across all categories of customers and 5.5% more for property rates.Member of the mayoral committee for finance Funzela Ngobeni this week tabled these proposed tariff increases: 5.
Lower levels of allocations will range between 10 kilolitres of free water a month and 12 kilolitres of water provided without charge to other vulnerable city residents. Meanwhile, Ngobeni said the city's billing backlog has been reduced from the previous 100,000 to the current 9,000 as at April 2019."I am the first to admit that there is a lot of work still to be done in addressing all problems within our billing value chain. I am pleased to say that we have made significant strides in this regard," he said.
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