Proportional rates

The Witness: Proportional rates
07 Jan 2009

I WOULD like to suggest that the Msunduzi Municipality allow residents to pay rates in proportion to services received.If municipal manager Rob Haswell took a stroll around Scottsville he would see that the weeds in the gutters are over a metre high and flowering, ready to throw more seeds and increase the danger of flooding. The drains cannot even be seen in some places.The team that was timed in Chasedene (The Witness, January 2) should be dismissed, plus their supervisor and the manager responsible for that department. A few women were noticed in Ridge Road scraping weeds out of the gutter, but unless a weedkiller is poured into the holes, the same problem will arise again in a few days’ time. In Christie Road, there is weed growth in the middle of the road as well as in the gutters and Lindup Road is a total disgrace.What are we paying rates for?
K. KNOTT
Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg


Posted by Ant on 07 Jan 2009
Proportional ratesExcellent idea, then none of us will pay rates. Then the municipality will dissappear, no money, they are gone, then we could get a non political party to run the town efficiently.
Posted by Splugton Hogg on 07 Jan 2009
Proportional ratesUnfortunately this suggestion would never work. If rates income was decreased, how do you think Comrade Rob and his Radical Robbers would be able to afford their lavish lifestyles?