Citizens are paying far more for electricity despite using less of it, as rising tariffs, fixed monthly charges and municipal costs reshape household bills and intensify…
We are at the mercy of ageing infrastructure, corrupt municipal workers and city officials who have lost control over Johannesburg
The South African Municipal Workers Union said it would not march but would ask for a meeting with the president when he visited the city
They criticised the Gauteng premier’s water and electricity solutions as misguided
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The ‘challenges’ being experienced in the metro were no different to those in other municipalities, the minister said
The city confirmed that repairs to Lilian Ngoyi Street, formerly Bree, will now be completed in May 2025 instead of December this year
The disconnect-reconnect cycle in townships is a reminder that giving people legal, affordable access to power goes beyond technical solutions
The electricity and energy minister announced a collaborative effort to bring down high municipal electricity tariffs and alleviate financial pressure on consumers
The electricity and energy minister warned that the debt prevents the power utility from investing in infrastructure
City Power says it cut power as a ‘last resort’ to save the grid from collapse – and recoup debts
The state claims that employees colluded in widespread fraud involving a substation project
Some residents in Soweto and Brixton have asked the City of Johannesburg to leave their areas on the network for health reasons
A security firm on a R57.2 million City Power contract has been implicated in a “reign of terror” in Eldorado Park
The entity announced a record loss of R23.9 billion for the financial year ending March 2023
Consumers are urged to report any suspicious behaviour
Some businesses have closed while others have had to let employees go because they cannot afford to pay them
City Power and Eskom identify hardest-hit areas by the floods which have caused widespread and escalating damage to power infrastructure
The utility buys R11-bn of electricity from Eskom which it needs to sell to make revenue and reinvest but instead it loses R2-bn a year due to illegal connections
South Africa must deal with the economic sabotage that is keeping the country in the dark
