ALREADY cash-strapped residents living in former council homes in Copesville, Pietermaritzburg, claim the municipality’s “broken” utility billing system was adding to their financial woes. Residents who were given the title deeds to the homes in 2019 by the Msunduzi Municipality are now being slapped with exorbitant bills ranging from R4 000 to R20 000 for unpaid rates and utilities. Vasi...
Rates and Services
Cape Town - The City of Cape Town has shared the increases that will reflect on the municipal accounts of ratepayers later in July onwards after the new rates and tariffs came into effect on Monday. The City said that the annual increases will be reflected on City customers’ municipal accounts only later in the July billing cycles and onwards. It is thus important to reduce usage so as to reduce...
