Good day

All Members of the West Gauteng Chamber of Business and Tourism

Most of you are customers of Mogale City Municipality and probably share the same concerns about the new Electricity Rates charged by Mogale City from 1 July 2024 .

On 28 August 2024 we sent emails to all our members indicating the steps that we have taken to place our accounts in DISPUTE with the municipality on the basis that we regard the introduction of the new BLOCK TARIFFS as unlawful and irregular on the basis that the BLOCK TARIFFS and other extraneous tariffs were not communicated and discussed with residents and business entities as required in terms of the provisions of the SYSTEMS ACT.

We provided members with a sample of the correspondence we sent to the Municipal Manager to be used as a template for Business Entities to also review their municipal accounts and also submit letters to the Municipal Manager to place their accounts in DISPUTE.  If you have not done so please take the trouble to also place your account in DISPUTE.

Since sending the above letters to our members we collaborated with Rate Payers Associations and Civic Groups and work has been done behind the scenes to obtain legal advice to interdict the municipality from charging the Block Tariffs and other New Tariffs.

We should be able to provide more information in the next few days  on the report of legal council on the expected cost and likelihood of succeeding in court. When we have this information we will provide information and costing and request members to contribute to the cost of interdicting the Municipality.  Together we can do more to protect our businesses from unlawful and irregular tariffs.

We will communicate with you shortly with more information,

Regards

DENNIS PRETORIUS

CEO

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