Media statement 7 February 2024
Cllr Jacqui Uys
MMC for Finance
The Tshwane Ya Tima revenue-collection campaign, which seeks to disconnect services to defaulting clients who run up high service bills and fail to pay the City, is back in full swing. The campaign targets all non-paying customers, including businesses, individual households and residential estates.
This week on Monday, 5 February 2024, Group Financial Services issued 188 disconnection job cards, mostly for residential households, worth about R50 million that is owed to the City. From this list, 70 accounts were immediately and successfully disconnected in various areas. Along with the disconnections, the City also imposes steep fines for meter tampering and illegal connections.
It is worth noting that this is just the start of the campaign. We are also targeting about 1 500 high-end defaulting consumers who owe the City billions of rand.
As we intensify our revenue-collection campaign, I wish to appeal to residential estate managers to allow City meter readers to do their job and not block access. It is important that we work together but, if necessary, we will use law enforcement.
As the MMC for Finance, I want to emphasise that the City needs revenue to deliver services and to honour commitments to creditors such as Eskom and Rand Water.
I want to thank residents who pay for their accounts on time and in full. I also want to call on all defaulting customers to come forward and make payment arrangements to keep their accounts in good standing.
We are firm in our stance that the financial rescue of the City is non-negotiable, therefore, every effort must be made to restore the City to a financially healthy position as quickly as possible.
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MMC Jacqui Uys