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Wendy

Yes I do

Cost of living

Virginia

Yes I do

Other

All the above reasons.

Niekie

Yes I do

Cost of living

Gerhard

Yes I do

Cost of living

Glenn

Yes I do

Service delivery

Nicolaas

Yes I do

Cost of living

Monty

Yes I do

Cost of living

Mogowe

Yes I do

Cost of living

Everything is getting high we can't manage and service delivery is poor

Vilakazi

Yes I do

Municipal collapse

The practice of municipalities to punish the law abiding citizens at the rate that they have been doing is going to ultimately collapse it. Less and less people are able to keep up with all the increases. And more and more are beginning to apply for indigent status. The number of people who depend on social grants has increased in recent years especially those in the working age group. The rate increases in the past 20 years have increased exponentially and for the same period also food price has followed the same pattern, let alone the fuel cost. Unless if all this may be an orchestrated plan to drive the majority of our population to be implicitly dependant on the government for basic needs which will thus empower it to control who eats what and how much that one can have.
Should these municipalities be allowed to continue in this trajectory, in less than 10 years we will have s scenario where this country will be held at ransom by 'criminals' no different from how JHB central, Braamfontein, Hillbrow and the surrounding suburbs have been hijacked by such. There are many creative ways for municipalities to generate income the problem is positions of power and authority are occupied by people who are more focused on party politics that solving problems.

john

Yes I do

Cost of living

TAXES ARE AN EVIL FORCED UPON THE MASSES BY THE BANKSTERS. THEY HAPPILY LEND BILLIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT, AND GET IT BACK BY TAXES.

TAXATION IS THEFT, plain and simple.

We have been taxed into poverty [by design]. It is time to take a stand. ALL taxes need to be lowered.

Enzo

Yes I do

Municipal collapse

No value from existing rates are observed

Wandile

Yes I do

Cost of living

All municipalities need to focus on performing their work. Eliminating over inflated white collar staff and increase an efficient blue collar work force.

Rona

Yes I do

Municipal collapse

The Council treats its citizens as a cash cow. Instead of concentrating on efficiency and reduction of fraud and general theft, they just hike rates and prices to cover their costs. They need to be accountable for their service delivery. Their salaries should be in proportion to the success or failure of their policies. In other words, if they succeed in meeting the AG requirements, then they have earned a salary increase. If they don't, their salaries should be reduced. This business of springing into action in the last 6 months before a local government election should stop. We all know it's window dressing!

precious

Yes I do

Cost of living

precious

Yes I do

Cost of living

Monte

Yes I do

Municipal collapse

We keep paying more and more but sewers arnt even working properly any more. Despite several courts ordering them to fix it. The extreme price of electricity and the connected fees to that make it dificult to to businesses profitable.

Lesiba Given

Yes I do

Cost of living

Nkosiyabo

Yes I do

Service delivery

There is no tangible value for our hard earned income.

Arthur

Yes I do

Municipal collapse

Wein Polokwane experience huge water issues. In my specific street we hav no water for the last 5 years ! yet they did spend billions on water reticulation and upgrades of the pumpstations at Olifants river and Ebenezer dam. The water pipeline is also degrading. Oost street in Polokwane dont have any water yet they want to increse the tares and taxes and they want ti increase the deposits on water en electyricity whilst we have per paid meters and water pre paid ! How sinical is that ?
They must be stopped now. WE should pay our rates and taxes in a trust account and appoint contrators do the work and paid via a legal firm or Price Waterhouse Coopers etc..

Janice

Yes I do

Cost of living

The displaced in Cape Town is increasing daily, how do we integrate them back into society when society is struggling financially - food prices are constantly increasing - never mind the general cost of living - we want answers and solutions.