R150 electricity delivery charge explained

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Many Capetonians are wondering about the extra R150 on their electricity bill this month. The City of Cape Town has implemented an electricity delivery charge because residents are saving electricity, meaning it has too little funds to cover the cost of maintaining infrastructure.

This change affects residents who live in a home that is worth more than R1-million, or make use of a credit metre, regardless of the property value. Residents who fall into that category will be expected to pay a fixed R150 per month, regardless of how much electricity they use per month.

This amount is lower than the amount of R251,85 which was proposed in 2017/2018.

This electricity delivery tariff was implemented as of the 1st of July. This also means that residents will now pay a rate of approximately R1.85c/kWh for the first 600 units per month, and R2.10c/kWh thereafter.
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Paying for the electricity thieves and the useless.
 
Well, they can do nothing, like the ANC would have, and then not afford to maintain the infrastructure and not pay Eskom, and then you can have daily power cuts in the mornings and evenings as Eskom tries to get them to pay, that's besides the frequent power cuts due to non maintained infrastructure. Way better than R150 per month, amirite?
 
supersunbird said:
Well, they can do nothing, like the ANC would have, and then not afford to maintain the infrastructure and not pay Eskom, and then you can have daily power cuts in the mornings and evenings as Eskom tries to get them to pay, that's besides the frequent power cuts due to non maintained infrastructure. Way better than R150 per month, amirite?
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If DA says eat sh@t you would eat it without asking questions. But should it have been ANC that added that R150 levy y'all will be frying foul.
 
Cheaper then the connection and network fee in Johannesburg, which works out to about R500. Though prepaid doesn't pay it.
 
thechamp said:
Every month?
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No every third month :). Yes every month it's a connection fee and an admin fee. It's like R370 + 140 or something. I'm on prepaid now so don't pay it and for complexes you won't see it as they charge you a higher rate.
But in a free hold house with post paid electricity bam just for the pleasure of having a connection, this goes back ten years or more. I remember when I was only using R200 a month on electricity but R300 on those two fees.
 
RedViking said:
Bahahahahahaha!

#VivaDA

(I'm not laughing at the people being screwed, just how ridiculous governments are.)
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They are by and large the most insidiously evil thieves and crooks that exist in any form or shape.

People try and save money with water and electricity, cant have that , must make new law to inhibit that practice and make money off of it.
 
Nanfeishen said:
They are by and large the most insidiously evil thieves and crooks that exist in any form or shape.

People try and save money with water and electricity, cant have that , must make new law to inhibit that practice and make money off of it.
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Yeah, they must just not maintain the infrastructure. Bloody useless CT government :mad:
 
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