Municipality spent R38 million on call centre "shack"
A municipality in the North West spent R38 million on a small prefabricated building in Vryburg, which it said is being used as its new call centre, City Press reports.
Sources at the municipality who have raised red flags about the project...
We needed to carry out repairs on our swimming pool and this will be complete in a week or two's time. After that it will need to be filled as we do not want the marbalite to crack. Having the current water restrictions in place we would pay a fine of around R6700 by filling it with the...
I am, unfortunately, situated in the lowest point in the road, which is a gravel road. There are no drains or ditches of any kind to direct any run-off and because of how the road is sloped, it all comes into my yard. I have an old Karoo huisie made of unfired clay bricks, the run-off has...
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URGENTLY need advice please. I'm renovating an old house (104) years old. I considered extending part of the house, but the cost was too much, so am just rebuilding part of the house on the old foundation. I understood that rebuilding on an existing foundation did not require planning...
I know its a case-by-case amount, but does anyone have any kind of ballpark figure (houses either side of me are supplied) for how much I'm looking at for a new connection from Oudtshoorn municipality.
And if possible - approximately how long it takes them to do a quote and the actual...
The ANC in Gauteng will send 6000 volunteers to Sicelo in Midvaal on Sunday to campaign for the 2014 elections.
"The volunteer campaign is aimed at mobilising residents of Midvaal to ensure that we remove the DA-controlled municipality," provincial spokesman Dumisa Ntuli said in a statement...
A newly-acquired, bright-red fire engine belonging to the Ngwathe municipality in Parys, in the Free State, has disappeared, the Volksblad newspaper reported on Thursday.
Municipal officials reportedly discovered that the Toyota Land Cruiser fire-fighter was missing on Tuesday night...
The eThekwini municipality will take over the management of the Moses Mabhida Stadium, it was reported on Monday.
It would not renew the contract of the caretaker operator, Municipal Management Services, which has managed the stadium since 2009. The Mercury reported. The contract ends in...
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2012/02/16/joburg-unable-to-serve-its-ratepayers
I dare anyone to tell me that these councillors from a certain ruling party are not a bunch of thieves and scumbags :mad:
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I looked over my April Invoice from the Municipality and show they charged me R 460.00 for a deposit adjustment! So I email customer care( I do not think they will reply) and wondered if anybody else have the same charge on their bill?
For what is it? Actually for what is the deposit(A...
I noticed a strange problem today, the "ECON" prepaid meter in my apartment has been displaying '40' units all day long. It's not counting down at all, according to elec usage, as it is supposed to. What do I do? (There was loadshedding in my area about 2 days ago, not sure if that was the...