{"id":64562,"date":"2012-11-13T10:16:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T08:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=64562"},"modified":"2012-11-13T10:17:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T08:17:51","slug":"eskom-price-hike-unavoidable-gigaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/64562-eskom-price-hike-unavoidable-gigaba.html","title":{"rendered":"Eskom price hike unavoidable: Gigaba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 16 percent electricity tariff hike every year for the next five years is unavoidable, Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It [the tariff increase] is not fair, [but] it is necessary,&#8221; Gigaba said at a business breakfast in Fourways.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given the challenges that we have&#8230; we need to ask South Africans to bare the collective pain to fund this build programme and go through this painful process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In October, Eskom submitted an application to the National Energy Regulator of SA for a 16 percent tariff hike every year for the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>Gigaba said the poor needed to continue to be shielded. They would be charged a single-digit flat rate determined by municipalities.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom asked municipalities to be considerate of their mark-up when charging more for electricity, as it was a source of revenue, Gigaba added.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Eskom price hike application \u201cnecessary\u201d \u2013 Gigaba\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/62856-eskom-price-hike-application-necessary-gigaba.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Eskom price hike application \u201cnecessary\u201d \u2013 Gigaba<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Copper theft down in September\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/62854-copper-theft-down-in-september.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Copper theft down in September<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Eskom wants 16 percent increase\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/62742-eskom-wants-16-percent-increase.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Eskom wants 16 percent increase<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malusi Gigaba, the Public Enterprises Minister, says that the annual 16 percent Eskom price hike is &#8220;necessary&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":42671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,181,16880,1155,16882],"class_list":["post-64562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-eskom","tag-eskom-prices","tag-malusi-gigaba","tag-price-hike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64564,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64562\/revisions\/64564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}