20/12/2022
[BREAKING NEWS]-20- 12-2022
It is alleged that our incompetent municipality has cut off electricity in most of the houses in Leseding today because they owe the municipality money which makes about R2M in total.
Bills of R180K have been issued to a lot residents who've failed to pay for the services like water, sewage and refusal removal.
Residents have to pay for the services that they go for days and sometimes weeks without getting those services. Sometimes the garbage truck does not come for three months but the residents are still billed fortunes.
60% of families aren't employed in Vaalwater but they have to pay so much for the services that they never get on time. About a week ago, Operation Phakama was recruiting 150 unemployed youth and there was over 300 people who were at the community hall looking for employment.
"We can pay we don’t have a problem until you fix this issues; iIllegal connections of electricity, potholes, Dilapidated infrastructure, street lights to function, management of municipality own vehicles to stop buying groceries on weekends, infrastructure development and others", commented one of Facebook users.
"The municipality must switch on our power or there'll be another massive strike. Yes they can switch off our water but we have been paying for our electricity non-stop."
The cry of the community of Mabane is yet to continue. Modimolle and other towns within the Modimolle-Mookgophong municipality are yet to be the victims of this.
So where will the unemployed families accumulate R120K for absurd bills when they only have Social Grant money for food and electricity? How are they going to survive when they can't even afford to buy firewood?
"It's time you rise against the corrupted incompetent leaders that we have in our municipality. No formal notice was given. The municipality never send us emails, sms or letters to let us know how much we owe each month", said one of Leseding residents.
