{"id":20924,"date":"2026-05-20T12:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=20924"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:30:30","slug":"south-africas-biggest-city-could-have-power-supply-throttled-over-unpaid-debts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/20924\/south-africas-biggest-city-could-have-power-supply-throttled-over-unpaid-debts\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa’s biggest city could have power supply throttled over unpaid debts"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa’s biggest city and economic hub, Johannesburg, could have its power supply \u200bthrottled by state-owned electricity company Eskom over unpaid \u200cdebts, Eskom said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Eskom said in a statement that the City of Johannesburg and its power utility \u200bCity Power owed it arrear debt of \u200b5.26 billion rand ($315.26 million). A further 1.58 \u2060billion rand is due on June 5.<\/p>\n

The \u200bCity of Johannesburg did not immediately respond to a \u200bReuters request for comment.<\/p>\n

Eskom has issued a notice of its intention to “reduce, interrupt and\/or terminate the supply of electricity \u200bto certain bulk supply points against the \u200bCity of Johannesburg and City Power”.<\/p>\n

The utility said it had \u200cworked \u2060with the Johannesburg metropolitan municipality for more than two years over the unpaid debts, but the city had repeatedly defaulted.<\/p>\n

Johannesburg’s financial woes have been \u200bin the spotlight \u200brecently after \u2060the country’s National Treasury raised\u00a0“serious concerns”<\/a>\u00a0over the state of its finances.<\/p>\n

Eskom \u200bhas also had longstanding financial troubles, \u200bbut \u2060it has started to emerge from them thanks to government bailouts and a sudden turnaround in the \u2060performance \u200bof its coal-fired power station \u200bfleet. It\u00a0reported\u00a0its first full-year profit in eight years last \u200byear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africa’s biggest city and economic hub, Johannesburg, could have its power supply \u200bthrottled by state-owned electricity company Eskom over unpaid \u200cdebts, Eskom said on Tuesday. Eskom said in a statement that the City of Johannesburg and its power utility \u200bCity Power owed it arrear debt of \u200b5.26 billion rand ($315.26 million). A further 1.58 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2831,30],"tags":[1593,2241,122],"class_list":["post-20924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-southern-africa","tag-eskom","tag-johannesburg","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20925,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20924\/revisions\/20925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}