Nepra reduces national electricity tariff by 62 paisa per unit for 2026, benefiting all DISCO customers except Lifeline and ...

Government’s free basic electricity (FBE) programme has failed to provide financial relief to poor South Africans, according to environmental researcher Dr Neil Overy and EarthLife Africa Johannesburg ...

City Power has launched a citywide registration campaign to enrol qualifying indigent households across Johannesburg for the free basic electricity (FBE) programme. The campaign, which has been ...

Nersa has approved a National Free Basic Electricity (NFBE) rate of 194.40c/kWh for the 2024/25 municipal financial year. Nersa made the decision at its meeting held on 30 May 2024. The new rate will ...

Eskom board chair Mteto Nyati has called for the government to increase the free basic electricity (FBE) grant from 50kWh and for municipalities to ring-fence their electricity budgets to ensure the ...

Free basic electricity worth 50 kWh will be given to low-income households who can prove they meet the qualifying criteria. Low-income households in Johannesburg have one month left to register for ...

When President Bola Tinubu was reported as saying that he should not receive votes in 2027 if he failed to fix electricity, and there was no rebuttal, I was overjoyed. But one sometimes fears that the ...