{"id":90548,"date":"2015-05-28T12:38:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T10:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=90548"},"modified":"2015-05-28T12:38:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T10:38:57","slug":"residents-to-pay-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/05\/28\/residents-to-pay-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents to pay more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The metro\u2019s MMC for finance Clr Moses Makwakwa is currently delivering the 2015\/2016 budget speech in the council chambers at the Germiston Civic Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Residents should get ready to dig into their pockets to accommodate the following tariff increases:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a07.5 per cent increase in assessment rates.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0An average of 12. 2 per cent for electricity.<\/li>\n<li>14.5 per cent for water.<\/li>\n<li>9.5 per cent for sanitation.<\/li>\n<li>8 per cent for refuse removal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There will be no tariff increases for cemeteries, libraries and recreational halls and the hiring and use of sports and recreational facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The metro claims that Ekurhuleni remains the most affordable metro in the country to live in and that the average household bill has only increased by R209 since 2011.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/90523\/ekurhuleni-peace-corps-members-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ekurhuleni Peace Corps members protest<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/90520\/intelligence-bureau-warns-public-to-avoid-cbd\/\" target=\"_blank\">Intelligence Bureau warns public to avoid CBD<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='ee2f8d73af1f0ec8718af651e8245280'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ekurhuleni&#8217;s budget speech currently underway in the Germiston council chambers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":90553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[3524,3611,1003,979,4281,2734,1002,7507,1004],"class_list":["post-90548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-budget","tag-budget-speech","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-cty-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-metros-budget","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["budget","Budget Speech","Ekurhuleni","germiston","germiston cty news","melissa hart","metro","metro's budget","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}