For the last few months, the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (“the City”) has adopted a new practice of including a generic notification at the very bottom of every customer’s monthly municipal statements, which warn that in the event of non-payment, cut off will follow.
Municipalities throughout South Africa utilise a well known debt-collection mechanism known as “clearance” to collect arrear debt from its customers.
Auditor-General (AG) Tsakani Maluleke on Tuesday, 27 August, called on all roleplayers in the accountability ecosystem to “work deliberately and with urgency” towards a culture of performance, accountability, transparency and institutional integrity to ultimately result in a better life for the people of South Africa.
SAPOA and the City of Tshwane held a high-level business breakfast on Tuesday 20th August 2024 at the Centurion Country Club. The event was facilitated at the request of the Tshwane Economic Development Agency, known as TEDA, which recently took up membership of SAPOA.
Meter tampering, the sneaky art of tweaking utility meters to bend the rules, is a serious criminal offence that the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality doesn’t take lightly. But what happens when things go wrong and the customer is wrongly accused of having tampered?
Johannesburg’s residents know all too well how much their city has been looted and neglected. They also know how to fix it, and a new mayor must work with them to bring it back from the brink.
South Africa’s office vacancy rate improved once again to 14.2% at the end of the second quarter of 2024
The International Property Institute is th world’s Leading Organization On Property Tax Policy And Practice
Newly appointed Cooperative Governance Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa has vowed to crack the whip on underperforming municipalities.
South Africa’s office vacancy rate improved once again to 14.2% at the end of the second quarter of 2024
Although the 3,8% increase in property rates seems to be fair, it is from a high base. When the new valuation roll was implemented in July 2023, instead of lower property rates tariffs it was increased by 2%.
The average property price has increased by over 833% since South Africa became a democracy, significantly outpacing inflation over the same period.
The importance of informing owners of new valuations was confirmed in two recent cases.
A decision of a valuation appeal board is functus officio, meaning that a decision taken by a board is valid until it is reviewed by a higher authority.
We have compiled a convenient table of 2024/2025 tariff increases for property rates, electricity, water, sanitation, and refuse.