{"id":55032,"date":"2026-04-05T04:41:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=55032"},"modified":"2026-04-05T04:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:41:44","slug":"2026-04-05-joburg-cuts-power-to-government-departments-as-unpaid-bills-top-r13bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/04\/05\/2026-04-05-joburg-cuts-power-to-government-departments-as-unpaid-bills-top-r13bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Joburg cuts power to government departments as unpaid bills top R1.3bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">City of Johannesburg (CoJ) officials began cutting off electricity to government departments last week due to the non-payment of bills. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Figures tabled this week reveal that City Power is owed almost R754m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The same situation exists at Johannesburg Water, where government departments owe the city more than R600m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The city\u2019s debtors\u2019 book has climbed to R71bn. This is what residents, businesses and other organisations owe the city in unpaid services, rates and taxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Joburg mayor Dada Morero, speaking at one of the government disconnection sites, said all customers, including government institutions, had a responsibility to honour their municipal obligations in full and on time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Read more.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"c-divider\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Joburg #cuts #power #government #departments #unpaid #bills #top #R1.3bn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Johannesburg (CoJ) officials began cutting off electricity to government departments last week due to the non-payment of bills.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55034,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55032\/revisions\/55034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}