{"id":8741,"date":"2012-03-09T15:01:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T13:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/s-africa-cuts-201213-power-rate-hike-to-16-pct\/"},"modified":"2012-03-09T15:01:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T13:01:28","slug":"s-africa-cuts-201213-power-rate-hike-to-16-pct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-cuts-201213-power-rate-hike-to-16-pct\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa cuts 2012\/13 power rate hike to 16 pct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, March 9<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nenergy regulator said on Friday it had cut the increase in<br \/>\nelectricity rates for power utility Eskom to 16 percent for the<br \/>\n2012\/13 financial year from a previously approved hike of 25.9<br \/>\npercent.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The decision follows Eskom&#8217;s application to reduce the hike<br \/>\nafter the utility had been asked by the government to ease up on<br \/>\nprivate and industrial consumers, who have been hit in recent<br \/>\nyears with soaring power costs.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Agnieszka Flak, editing by Ed Stoddard)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, March 9 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s energy regulator said on Friday it had cut the increase in electricity rates for power utility Eskom to 16 percent for the 2012\/13 financial year from a previously approved hike of 25.9 percent. The decision follows Eskom&#8217;s application to reduce the hike after the utility had been asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}