Despite the fanfare and hype around the eThekwini Municipality’s 50 percent debt relief programme – hailed by some to be the key to many of the ills currently faced by the general population – the Shallcross Chatsworth Queensburgh Ratepayers Association has put its foot down, deeming this supposed relief as ‘an insufficient and fundamentally flawed response to systemic municipal failures’.
SCQRA is a non-profit organisation representing residential and business ratepayers across Shallcross, Chatsworth, and Queensburgh in the eThekwini Municipality, advocating for accountable governance, service delivery excellence, and ratepayer rights.
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Nazeera Khan, a director of the SCQRA, explained…