New electricity tariffs effective from today in Johannesburg [SOUND]

# City Power says as new electricity tariffs comes to effects today, customers on the Residential Prepaid High tariff will see an average increase of 11.66-percent, primarily due to increases in energy charges. The fixed monthly charges, 70-rand service charge and 130-rand network capacity charge, will remain unchanged. City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena says a typical customer consuming 800-kilowatt-hour-per-month will now pay two-thousand-635-rand-82-cent, up from two-thousand-360-rand-57-cent, which is 275-rand-24-cent more: