There are only 8.37% of the residents of our municipality paying to run this municipality,(3.5 million residents, 350,000 rate payers 56,000 of those excluded through the social program that leave 8.37%) now, anyone looking at that would say that it is unsustainable, anyone that is, except the current people making those decisions. And those people are the ones earning in excess of R1 million, and in the case of our city manager R1.7 million. So the increases they force through don’t affect them like they do

the rest of us.

Krish Kumar recently blamed the economic slowdown for the R440 million that ratepayers are in debt to the city for non payment. The economic slowdown has become a convenient scapegoat, and that excuse should work both ways. How about, because of the “economic slowdown”, we freeze the budget and cut municipal spending instead of raising rates. I would also be in favour of having an efficiency expert go through every municipal department and make recommendations, as I am sure that the municipality is top heavy with dead wood, and we as a municipality are not an employment agency, we are here only to deliver services to the public.

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