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Tozama

Yes I do

Cost of living

Salaries and wages are going down while cost of living is risng. People have to buy jobs. If your surname is not popular its difficult to find s job in South Africa.

Marius

Yes I do

Service delivery

As a farm owner, I am forced to pay rates and taxes.
The service roads to the farms is not municipal and is poorly maintained by provincial authorities. Farmers has to repair roads at their own expense to maintain the feasibility of the farming business.
There is ZERO services the municipality provides to the farming community. The supposed to be market related evaluation of farms is over inflated. To fight it is extremely time consuming and requires visits to the municipal offices. This removes you from the farm with a resulting loss in income. Meanwhile, the municipality works on the Pay, we will fix later, principle. The fix later never happens, even if you prove the valuation mistakes is on municipal side.
Rates should be frozen. Rates should be abolished forever. As if the tax on the farm income is fair. The system is destined to implode on itself.

Princess

Yes I do

Service delivery

Carmen

Yes I do

Cost of living

Ivy

Yes I do

Cost of living

Cost of living and no service delivery.
By laws are not enforced. There is squatter camps mushrooming everywhere and they get water and electricity for free.
Law abiding citizen are taxed high to feed the bill whereas if by laws where enforced we will never have this problems.

There is water flowing freely near every recycling village formed by illegal waste recyclers. There is always a bust pipe near whose dumps.
Consequences is rand water saying we dont have enough water to service the whole of gauteng.

Sanet

Yes I do

Service delivery

I do not mind paying taxes or the municipality for services rendered, but they do not deliver, not even after they make promises. We are all battling, we are all under stress, but to pay for something that your are not getting is making it worse. Our economy is not the best, and we need to get to a place where we were. I cannot afford to pay the municipality for the services I have to pay someone else to do as the municipality do not do it. So I pay double for services. Tax in our country is ridiculous, especially if you look at what services are given to the people from the government side.

Hilton

Yes I do

Service delivery

I don’t mind paying taxes however then services need to be delivered. This is clearly not the case and as such a freeze on payments should be made until commitment for action is achieved. Then funds released as and when work is successfully completed. Not before.

Thomas

Yes I do

Other

Rates and taxes are always over R20k but when asking the municipal officials to explain what rates and taxes are, they can hardly simplify it. let alone how they came to that huge value of over R20k.

Also the service delivery is a challenge. We pay for refuse removal yet no municipal bins have been allocated. I requested for the bin for the past 4 years without success. Right now I dig a hole for my refuse removal and bury it in my yard.

Dianne

Yes I do

Municipal collapse

MICHAEL

Yes I do

Cost of living

Is it feasible to have a report rating on our monthly RATES bill?
The opposition party would have to monitor this and name and shame the Municipal section for non compliance. Somehow this should reach the office of the President.
Pie-in-the-sky??

Annemarie

Yes I do

Municipal collapse

We simply cannot keep up anymore in South Africa. I preferred to put my pension money in a fund myself and now I get just more than half of my income. Good heavens, it's pension money, already paid taxes. Why do you hate retired people so much??? I struggle to just live because of taxes and ANC rubbish!

Lee

Yes I do

Other

Needs an all of the above button.

Prieska

Yes I do

Cost of living

Craig

Yes I do

Cost of living

Mohammed

Yes I do

Cost of living

Thoko

Yes I do

Cost of living

The joburg Municipality and Gauteng govt seem determined to squeeze residents dry. There is no show of improved service delivery or better facilities. It is more like the municipality/province is forcing residents to relocate to other provinces where residents are not squeezed dry. If it's not tolls or additional electricity fees imposed only on Joburg residents, then it's ridiculous tariff increases. This just has to stop.

Yogesh

Yes I do

Service delivery

Everything is non existing from government. No accountability, No will to improve the country

Natasha

Yes I do

Cost of living

Mdumiseni

Yes I do

Cost of living

The cost of living is very high. We have things like personal income tax that even you get salary adjustment you can't see the difference in your salary.

Annie

Yes I do

Municipal collapse

More is being stolen than spent where it is required. Why should we give these thieves and criminals more?