{"id":29125,"date":"2026-03-18T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29125"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:17:57","slug":"sa-to-see-electricity-tariff-hike-next-month","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-to-see-electricity-tariff-hike-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"SA to see electricity tariff hike next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s (SA) Acting Director-General of the Department of Electricity and Energy, Subesh Pillay, has acknowledged that consumers will feel the impact of the electricity tariff increase taking effect next month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The National Energy Regulator of SA has approved a rise of 8.76% for Eskom direct customers, while households supplied through municipalities will face an average increase of just over 9% from July.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Infrastructure Indaba in Durban, Pillay said the department is balancing a cost-reflective tariff with affordability measures, particularly for low-income and vulnerable communities. He added that energy pricing also affects manufacturing costs, and the goal is to mitigate the cost-of-living impact while supporting industrial competitiveness for SA products.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27729,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-29125","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"SA consumers will feel the impact of the electricity tariff increase taking effect next month","published_date":"2026-03-18 15:03:07","news_description":"SA consumers will feel the impact of the electricity tariff increase taking effect next month","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29126,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29125\/revisions\/29126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=29125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}