The problem of failing municipalities

[supersunbird]

Nearly half of the municipalities got their political councils to approve unfunded budgets in the 2019 financial year, meaning they planned to spend money they did not have and would not get.

Predictably, the result was chaos.

The report quotes figures from the SA Municipal Workers’s Union (Samwu) showing that 30 municipalities are currently unable to pay salaries, and many more that cannot pay suppliers such as Eskom.

Read: SA municipalities face collapse, index shows

It is common knowledge that Eskom is financially vulnerable. In turn, Eskom says part of its financial problems are that local municipalities are unable to pay their debts to the utility, even in cases where residents have paid their electricity accounts. At the time of the writing of the Pari report, municipalities owed Eskom more than R34 billion.

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni called on Eskom to collect these debts by making it one of the conditions of the recent bail-out by taxpayers.

More at: https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/the-problem-of-failing-municipalities/

 

[supersunbird]

Damn colonialists, bringing things like municipalities and accounts that must be paid and things like services that must be rendered.

 

[Gaz{M}]

ANC don't understand that you just milk the cow, not suck out all it's muscles with a vacuum cleaner and then wonder where all the milk went.

 

[RaptorSA]

Good, collapse and get it over with, the closer the final collapse happens to me still being able to wipe my own arse and string two sentences together the better.

Extra points if the collapse is total to the point where staging a proper tax revolt becomes an option.
I literally get hard at the idea of withholding taxes, I just have no idea how to.

 

[Mila]

The ANC is a disease.
It will not get better with them at the helm.

There is no way to dig yourself out of the corruption in these munisipalities.
In the mean time the Major of Tzaneen bought a new maserati.

 

[VooDooC]

Good, collapse and get it over with, the closer the final collapse happens to me still being able to wipe my own arse and string two sentences together the better.

Extra points if the collapse is total to the point where staging a proper tax revolt becomes an option.
I literally get hard at the idea of withholding taxes, I just have no idea how to.

We will need to get all the businesses involved as well, have them either pay our taxes into a separate account or pay us our full salaries and let us decide whether we want to pay it over to SARS or not.

 

[RaptorSA]

In the mean time the Major of Tzaneen bought a new maserati.

Somebody probably told him not to slow down but to rather speed up when approaching a pothole.

 

[RaptorSA]

We will need to get all the businesses involved as well, have them either pay our taxes into a separate account or pay us our full salaries and let us decide whether we want to pay it over to SARS or not.

Yeah, and that can only happen if being a pussy is no longer an option.
Hence, we need a total collapse.