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first-name | decision | top-concern | message |
|---|---|---|---|
Colleen | Yes I do | Service delivery | Service delivery for maintenance and upkeep of public roads is lacking. Roads are in a poor state with potholes left unrepaired. Maintenance of water pipes falls short leading to burst pipes on almost a weekly basis. Public parks and pavement areas have to be cleaned up by community volunteers because the municipality does not attend to this. Community volunteers fill potholes where they can. It seems the job of the municipality is left to the public who pay for these services and then end up doing the work themselves at the end of the day. |
Megan | Yes I do | Service delivery | There has already been an increase with city cleaning, it has increased my rates account by over R1000 per month, Sea Point and Green Point are filthier than ever, street children run wild and harass you at every traffic light, parking place and even when walking on the promenade, homeless sleeping in many driveways, it is terrible just above the Main Road and between Main Road and Beachfront. The traffic is horrendous, never see any traffic police, Ubers, delivery bikes and taxis just do whatever they want on the roads. Over and above I have seen NO cleaning of anything, now they expect another rates increase, to what is already crippling. When one studies the various rates within the Atlantic Seaboard, there is nothing that makes sense, there is no pattern to the amounts charged. Every 2 years I go through the same thing and object to the rates increase. Now, they want to value my apartment at a higher price than properties just sold, similar in size, finishes and location. If it didn't hurt so much it would be comical. 4 years ago the increase of the valuation was 75%, objected and paid a 50% increase, 2 years later another 35% increase, objected and they kept it at the over-valued amount, now they want another 35%. I wonder if the mayor gets such high annual salary increases allowing him the affordability of over priced rates on his home, constant electricity price hikes & cleaning fees |
Deangelo | Yes I do | Municipal collapse | !Corruption! |
Dalene | Yes I do | Cost of living | An imminent tax freeze will provide relief to households by fully adjusting for inflation. |
U | Yes I do | Service delivery | There's too much corruption, and we are already paying too much rates and taxes. Government must first eradictae corruption before raising any taxes. Once corruption is eradicated, we should be paying less taxes, not more. Corrupt officials must be investigated and when found guilty their estates must be sold and the money must be recuperated into municipality coffers. Taxes must be used for our benefit, and services must be delivered to the highest standards. |
Lukas | Yes I do | Cost of living | Freezing municipal rates and taxes would ease financial pressure, help people budget better, and support local businesses by keeping more money in the community. |
A A | Yes I do | Other | All of the above. What is needed is not more money for greedy politicians to get their hands on, but far better CONTROL and FULL, TRANSPARENT and ACCOUNTABLE spending (as the ANC promised when it came into power and has forgotten to the detriment of the whole land but especially the poorest of our citizens). |
Eric | Yes I do | Service delivery | |
Dean | Yes I do | Municipal collapse | We have been rate paying citizens in Kya Sands (business) and Fourways (residence) for 30 years. We have been living with municipal breakdown, corruption and lack of service delivery for 30 years. We are pushing back. We have had enough of the Jmpd taking bribes and turning a blind eye to illegal dumping and burning. We have had enough of broken roads and traffic lights. Do the right thing for once and make decisions in the interests of the tax paying citizens, not yourselves. Read the writing on the wall. The revolt is closer than you think. |
Jonathan | Yes I do | Cost of living | The municipalities have climbed on the the same gravy train as the government SOE's. The generation of non existent service added costs and property rates increases without actually inspecting the property are raping those few that are paying their accounts, this is unconstitutional and should be reviewed and put on hold due to the present economic slump and uncertainty. Municipal management needs to come down to earth and back to reality. |
Russell | Yes I do | Service delivery | My top concerns are actually all of the above options. How many municipalities have collapsed due to incompetence and/or corruption, and no one is held accountable. Yet people continue to suffer the consequences. Its difficult to justify why people must handover their hard-earned money, when there is poor or no service delivery. Cost of living is increasing all the time - everything costs more! Eskom has an insatiable appetite. It would be greatly encouraging to citizens if municipalities demonstrated transparency and responsibility in the use of public funds. Visible improvements such as maintaining verges, repairing potholes, ensuring a continuous supply of clean water, settling outstanding electricity bills with Eskom, and keeping transparent financial records would go a long way in restoring public trust. When people see that their contributions are being used to improve their environment, they will be more willing to pay their rates. If municipalities take decisive steps to clean up their operations and prioritize service delivery, and foster accountability, it will go a long way to rebuild confidence among citizens. Show people where their money is being used. Until then, there should be a freeze on rates. |
Shamiela | Yes I do | Cost of living | With the high unemployment rate and unaffordable increase in electricity together with below affordable income it's only right that rates and taxes should be frozen or else our population will be the ones freezing |
Thomas | Yes I do | Cost of living | The annual increase of rates and taxes coupled with electricity tariff hike makes it all difficult to stay afloat financially. Especially with a lacking to non-existing service delivery, one asks themselves why do we even pay these things because we are even highly taxed. |
Helen | Yes I do | Cost of living | |
Kira | Yes I do | Service delivery | |
Brian | Yes I do | Cost of living | |
Tessa | Yes I do | Cost of living | |
Chris | Yes I do | Service delivery | Money for municipal services collected are wasted and ghastly managed. Freeze bonuses and cap salaries and freeze non performance bonuses. Emidiate Termination of all municipal employees that does not man up & do what he needs to do as to ensure proper service delivery, it is a disgrace of Municipallities taking rates & taxes & do not deliver these services Klerksdorp Matlosana is an example of non compliance Munisipality, Roubish bags are set out on the dates & are not picked up we pay extra for garden services to remove these services, theft & vandalism on the electrical infrastructure is costing tax payers dearly, we got all solar no need any more for electrical point but still need to pay even of the power was down due to cable fualt more than 3 weeks of no service,Water main line pipes burst pouring expencive needed water down the roads, not even to note the Sewer Blockages on almost every street corner pouring daly down the roads ending in the storm water system down to the Vaal River. The townships are not paying for services & no action are taken on it ending astronormus Millions of Bills outstanding to Water board & Eskom causing more on already burden taxpayers sholders, not to forget re the stupid amounts on arrears on every house holds water & electricity,rates & taxes bill since May this year there was no meter readings due to corruption & bad management of the system some received water readings of 300-450KL of water used o dear not even with a burst pipe running 24/7 could give that amount of water ussage redicules , so i say the corrupt municipallity & all their staff need to go & new staff that want to work & are PROUD of Doning their Work to put in place Non service delivery is not due to lack of funds .. it's lack of activities to perform |
Ngatetsang | Yes I do | Cost of living | Worried about Cost of Living. The Municipality does not take Cost of leaving in consideration when determining the Rates. Also why we paying when we are not receiving the service. |
Rentia | Yes I do | Cost of living | The rates and taxes are unaffordable. |