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Joshua Fortuin, Joel Crouch and Reece Adams from Excelsior Primary School listen intently as Captain Dettol explains the merits of washing their hands in a hygienic way. More on page 6.
PROPOSED RATES HIKES: ECONOMIC SURVIVAL OF HOUSEHOLDS THREATENED
Tariff increase shocker DESIRÉE RORKE AND NIELEN DE KLERK @dezzierorke, @nielendk
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he middle class, lower middle class and vulnerable groups such as pensioners and single-parent households in Cape Town face poverty should the proposed new rates and tariff increases be approved. The draft budget for 2018/19 was tabled by Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille at the end of March and has been presented at public meetings across the Metropole. It is especially the exorbitant increase in water tariffs
and a proposed new levy that threaten the economical survival of Cape Town households. Proposed rates and tariff increases for 2018/19 •Rates 7.2% •Electricity, an average increase of 8.14% •Refuse 5.7% •Water and sanitation, both 27% Apart from the 27% increase in water and sanitation respectively, the City also introduced an additional fixed water charge.
This charge will cover the costs of the reticulation and is based on the connection size of the pipe to your system. A pipe 15mm in diameter will carry a levy of R56, 20mm R100, 40mm R400, 80mm R1600 and so forth. People living in housing complexes with shared water meters and connection pipes will be hardest hit, according to a TygerBurger source. “These pipes are the largest and an average complex would pay about R10 000 for this levy, leaving individual unit owners with a
levy as high as R400 per month, excluding the normal usage,” the source says. Poor households and those with a property valued lower than R400 000 will not be affected by these fixed rates. “Add to this the normal water and sanitation tariff, rates and electricity increase and you’re looking at a municipal account that could be anything between R400 and R1000 more for middle and lower middle class households,” the source says (see table on page 2). V To page 2.