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first-name | decision | top-concern | message |
|---|---|---|---|
Elise | Yes I do | Municipal collapse | Bancrupsey twice declared. Oversizes to restore unsuccessful. Mm Audit says it all. All fund go for salaries to many new appointments. Not logistics and service delivar we pay for. Local community forums took on their responsibilities. Removing trash, potholes lighting grass citing. Cameras for security in residential areas. |
Ashiana | Yes I do | Service delivery | |
Johnny | Yes I do | Service delivery | Municipalities need to get their admin right. then there will be money for everyone. If municipalities did the admin for the indigent registers correctly, then they world get more money from national/provincial government. Then they must pay Eskom and the water boards correctly. Lastly they need to get everyone to pay for their services. No use asking people to pay more when (in the case of Randfontein) there are up o 7% of people who do not pay their rates and taxes |
Reinard | Yes I do | Cost of living | Life is expensive and just getting more expensive by the day. City of Cape Town just adding more and more on our plates. One of theses day people won't be able to put food on their plates with extra taxes when they think it is good. |
Matthew | Yes I do | Municipal collapse | 1. Lack of service delivery 2. Poor performance when service delivery is received i.e. repairing of potholes or burst water pipes. Solution - Probation period followed by assessments before being hired. 1. Required program for water repair technicians or road repair technicians- 500 people apply. 2. Inform applicants they will be on a probation period for 6 months to 1 year during which they will be TAUGHT their craft and assessed along the away. 3. After which the top candidates will be selected. |
Claudette | Yes I do | Cost of living | South Africa has the highest unemployment, crime rate, cost of living, and lowest service delivery in the world. How are we expected to pay the exorbitant taxes, and survive in these hard economic times ? |
Karen | Yes I do | Cost of living | |
Peter | Yes I do | Other | Service delivery is not existent, roads full of potholes, lights don't work and zero delivery from the municipality, which equals municipal collapse. Why pay for services which are non existent... |
Juan | Yes I do | Cost of living | Cost of living yearly increase outweighs salarie increase by a huge margin |
sinenhlanhla | No I do not | Other | There are so many internal crisis that South Africa is facing daily that need to be improve. We have too crime and a multiple nations represented in this country why choose one and how about solving the civil crisis of crime and attack that our country is facing first then look on how to help others My concern is that this is not just a political thing it will spread since we are county of diverse nationalities other people will feel entitled to miss tread or verbaly attack other just to provoke them to say certain things to thier disadvantage The question is our government ready to handle the civil war that will come our of this and the criminals that will use this a shield to commit their crime. What benefits is this to the people of this country in any way When we were fight apartheid in our country did any country do this for us or did any one come to our aid ? Do we even know the full picture on both sides of the countries how our rights to have our opinion is it not taken away slowly but surely by this new law that silence the truth and push political agendas even at the expense of our lives, our children and the futher generations of this country taking all authorities and responsibility from the people , shutting down our voices. And like sheeps to be slaughtered, with no voice taking all the rights that were once given setting this country purposeful for failure to make us dependent on the Government that have no interest in our well-being |
Johannes | No I do not | Municipal collapse | |
SAKHILE | Yes I do | Service delivery | |
Mpumelelo | Yes I do | Cost of living | Municipal property values in general are increasing, so if tariffs remain the same the municipal revenue will still increase with the revised valuations as the GV Rolls are updated. It is unfair that the tariff rates increase while the municipal values simultaneously increase, and this results in the rate payers' expenses increasing exponentially and making cost of living unaffordable. Instead of increasing rates, the municipalities ought to consider zero-based budgeting. |
R | Yes I do | Cost of living | Money for municipal services collected are wasted and ghastly managed. Freeze bonuses and cap salaries and freeze non performance bonuses. Non service delivery is not due to lack of funds .. it's lack of activities to perform duties |
Strini | Yes I do | Cost of living | Too much of corruption. Our taxes never go to where it is needed |
Nicole | Yes I do | Cost of living | Not only must rates and taxes be frozen. Politicians salaries must also be frozen, or be performance related at the very least. The rates and taxes are unaffordable. It is deeply troubling that municipal rates and taxes continue to rise while the quality of service delivery remains extremely poor. At the same time, the cost of living for ordinary South Africans has become excessively high, as persistently rising inflation renders personal incomes and salaries inadequate to meet even basic needs. We pay rates and taxes, and yet no service delivery happens with municipalities wasting money, misappropriating it, or plainly just stealing the money. This means that we as citizens bear the brunt of municipal fat cats living luxury lives while we suffer. Citizens are over-taxed as it is. We need some way to ease this unfair burden on citizens. I strongly oppose any further increases in municipal property rates and local taxes at this time. South Africans are already overburdened by multiple layers of taxation and are struggling to recover from the severe economic impacts of the COVID-19 lockdowns. Any additional municipal rate or tax hikes will exacerbate financial hardship, harm household budgets, and impede economic recovery. |
Busi | Yes I do | Service delivery | Rates and taxes do not match the service and the area (not true reflection ) are substandard. It's like i am slowly building the house, lot of errors, this Houses were meant for RDP are on poor standards |
Wilma Maritz | Yes I do | Municipal collapse | We dont have water in our taps and have to buy all ou drinking water from bussines outlets, but we are living on the banks of the mighty Orange River. Due to uncapable caders that cant or would not do their work, our communities suffer in the sweltering heat. It suits them, because the water mafia tankers are paid R700.000 per month and they get kickbacks under the table. Corrupt to the core! |
Susan | Yes I do | Municipal collapse | The Kgetleng River Local Municipality CANNOT even deliver the most basic service like uninterrupted daily clean water. The electricity infrastructure is near collapse with constant regular days long interruptions. Some parts of the towns the streets are completely destroyed or disintegrating due to lack of maintenance or proper repairs. No raises in tariffs until the municipality sort these issues out permanently. |
Dirk | Yes I do | Cost of living | We pay rates and taxes, and yet no service delivery happens with municipalities wasting money, misappropriating it, or plainly just stealing the money. This means that we as citizens bear the brunt of municipal fat cats living luxury lives while we suffer. Citizens are over-taxed as it is. We need some way to ease this unfair burden on citizens. |