Cape Town offers lowest monthly bill, best services for 2025/26 [SOUND]

# The City of Cape Town offers the lowest monthly municipal bill of South Africa’s ‘big five’ metros. This is based on an analysis of the 2025/26 tabled budgets for each metro across a range of water and electricity usage scenarios for properties under 5-million-rand. Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says while Cape Town delivers value for money in a functional, working city, the exact opposite is happening in other metros where residents are paying more and more for broken services and collapsing infrastructure: