VEREENIGING. – If ActionSA Ward 15 councillor candidate Mokhitla Nete has his way and wins a seat in the upcoming Local Government Elections (LGE), Vereeniging residents could have less to worry about when it comes to the millions owed in rates and taxes to the Emfuleni Local Municipality (ELM).
Nete aims to engage the municipality to speedily organise and enforce debt rehabilitation and indigent registration programmes in the ward.
Nete makes an example of the success of the programmes in municipalities such as the Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (JMM), where the programmes are currently in place, and qualifying customers benefit from a 50% municipal debt write-off, along with 100% interest and fee waivers,…