Tshwane Municipality: Cleansing tariff targeted at gated estates, malls paying for private waste collectors

JOHANNESBURG - The new city cleansing tariff proposed by the Tshwane Municipality will target gated estates and shopping malls that pay for private waste collectors.  

In the draft budget for the 2025/2026 financial year, the municipality wants to introduce a new waste collection tariff of R194 a month.  

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The Tshwane Municipality held a media briefing in Pretoria on Wednesday to expand on the matter.  

The city cleansing tariff will be charged to premises worth over R250,000 that do not have an existing waste account with the municipality.  

This means places that pay for private waste collection will be the ones affected by this new tariff.  

MMC for Agriculture Obakeng Ramabodu said the waste from private collectors ended up at the city’s landfill sites, which the municipality spent a lot of money operating.

"We are targeting gated communities. We are targeting malls. There are malls we have identified that are on our books. They only have one bin, but when you go to check on site, they have a hundred, but they only pay us for one, and the rest they use for private."

If the budget is passed as is, the new tariff will come into effect on 1 July.