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2025-05-11 22:03:57 +02:00

Rina

Tshwane

No I do not

Property rates

We cannot afford the rates on a R700 000 increase in the value of our home. We are pensioners... with a less than average yearly increase. The property rate increase is almost 30%.

2025-05-11 22:02:54 +02:00

Dietrich

No I do not

Property rates

More money into government means more money for corruption, theft, pilfering, misappropriation, etc. and nobody is ever caught or sent to jail. If lost moneys could be recovered and corruption and misappropriation and mismanagement stopped then all these increased rates could be eliminated or at the very least contained. More should be done to bring perpetrators to the book and actually send them to jail for bringing SA's economy down, then less increases in rates would be needed. About time that SOEs be held to account and ghost workers be eliminated and bloated government departments be scaled down to suitably qualified, and suffiently staffed departments.

2025-05-11 22:02:17 +02:00

Ezethu

Chantelle

No I do not

Electricity

Companies can’t afford salary increases due to current economic conditions. Increasing tariffs will leave many of us without means of payment as we are already struggling to make ends meet.

2025-05-11 22:01:11 +02:00

Mihlali

Eesteriver

No I do not

Electricity

2025-05-11 21:59:45 +02:00

Karen

Faerie Glen

No I do not

Water

2025-05-11 21:59:36 +02:00

Vuyo

Humewood

No I do not

Property rates

2025-05-11 21:57:43 +02:00

Doris

Meriting

No I do not

Property rates

The increase in these property rates it's insane, I just received a statement for the month of April and it has increased by 17.45% which is way too much, our salaries does not even get to two digits increase. They need to think about these tarrifis when they do they increase as it will demotivate citizens not to pay in the long run

2025-05-11 21:56:47 +02:00

Rickus

No I do not

Property rates

2025-05-11 21:55:59 +02:00

Camarin

No I do not

Property rates

2025-05-11 21:55:35 +02:00

Tersia

Hazendal

No I do not

Electricity

Everything is my big concern
What about pensioners, who earn less than R1600
How would they survive

2025-05-11 21:53:48 +02:00

wendy

West Hill

No I do not

Other

I have not chosen a top concern because all of choices are top concerns. We may have no loadshedding but that doesnt mean that there are not frequent electricity failures; the water situation is dire: for the last ten days, for example, we have water for approximately 3 hours a day, at arbitrary times, usually between 4 and 5 hours from about dawn; and why should we pay rates at all as most of the townspeaople dont bother? Moreover, the roads are a nightmare of potholes which means tyres have to be replaced often, involving considerable time, great inconvenience, and expense; and every journey which, normally, takes 10 minutes at the legal speed, now takes at LEAST 20 minutes because one has to go at a snail's pace to dodge the potholes which, when and if they are repaired, are so badly repaired that they open up within 6 months. It is infuriating trying to run a busy life while struggling with defunct basic services. Life has become difficult, demanding, time-consuming, infuriating - and EXTREMELY expensive. Why should the community have to pay MORE for non-existent services. What do you DO with the exorbitant amounts of money we pay already...? It's embarrassing and verging on the criminal that Municipalities will steal even more from us. If good business is supply and demand - all you do is DEMAND but supply only disasters...... Finally - no one bothers to phone the Municipality in Makana as phones are either engaged or ring out; and although lists of managers with their numbers are issues, those phone numbers are rarely responded to. Apart from one or two really GOOD managers who do a fine job, the vast majority of highly paid municpal managers IGNORE the public who pay their salaries.....
Thank you for this opportunity, wendy

2025-05-11 21:53:46 +02:00

Peter

Kraaibosch

Not fully

Electricity

Please ensure rates increases are within cpi, get expert advice, not from politicians.

2025-05-11 21:52:29 +02:00

Zaheer

Crown Gardens

No I do not

Property rates

Rates were increased without evaluations.
We pay so much taxes on everything, where is all of that going?

2025-05-11 21:51:59 +02:00

Ifafi

No I do not

Property rates

2025-05-11 21:51:01 +02:00

Godfrey

Riversands

No I do not

Electricity