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Ratepayers have 'reason to be unhappy'

Submitted by MyTableView on Thu, 11/03/2010 - 11:18.
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Co-operative Governance Deputy Minister Yunus Carrim has said white ratepayers creating their own parallel governments had reason to be unhappy with service delivery.

"Their grievances are indeed valid," Carrim told Beeld newspaper in an interview at Parliament in Cape Town.

"We respect them and we are sorry about the [bad] service delivery but change won't happen overnight," he said.

Co-operative Governance Minister Sicelo Shiceka earlier this month said more than 280 white ratepayer associations were creating parallel governments.

"We have discovered that over 280 ratepayers' associations, which unfortunately are white organisations, have created a parallel government," he told reporters at Parliament.

"They take the money instead of paying service to municipalities and put it in a trust account.

"That undermines the ability of municipalities to deliver services."

These associations withhold their rates and pay the money into a trust account to carry out their own municipal services.

Shiceka said the government would try and talk to these associations but if they did not back down, legal action would be taken.

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Submitted by Alex on Thu, 11/03/2010 - 19:43.

All 280 disputes have their reasons.

The ANC should not take legal actions against the ratepayers,and waste more taxpayers money, instead take rather legal actions against their non peforming cadres.

I also doubt strongly that Ratepayersassocations, have a "white only policy".

To play here the Racecard, is the same rubbish, as the "rubbish" that is not collected there.

Missing the point entirely.

Submitted by William Phillips (not verified) on Sat, 20/03/2010 - 09:34.

Missing the point entirely. The SA taxpayer already pays too much to central government via income tax, VAT, UIF, SDL, Estate Duty, Transfer Tax, Excise Taxes, Licences, Fuel Levies and more recently massive fines levied on companies (that are passed on ultimately to the consumer) .Where does this money go? We get no Education, no effective policing, no acceptable healthcare. Nada, Niks, didly squat.

The failure of central government to effectively subsidise local means that a whole new round of taxes are falling due in order to keep local running. Alas again we do not get what we pay for. If it costs R200 per month to collect rubbish, thats what I expect to pay. If it costs R10000 per month for a metro police official to enforce by-laws, thats what I expect to pay. We pay for the most basic services and the money at both levels subsidises everything except (fast cars, useless warships, BEE deals (IDC/business parters) excess wives, frivolous lawsuits).

Then we are told to create a cid in order to finance the things that should have been financed firstly by central government and secondly by local.

Triple taxation I say, triple taxation.