In this election, Newzroom Afrika is following the money – asking what residents pay into their municipalities, what municipalities collect, and what citizens get in return. But in large parts of rural South Africa, that relationship works very differently.Across the Eastern Cape, substantial modern homes are being built on communal land. Because many of these properties are neither surveyed nor individually registered in the conventional property system, they generally do not appear on municipal valuation rolls and therefore do not attract conventional property rates.At the same time, many of these communities receive limited municipal services.So what does that mean for municipalities trying to raise their own revenue and for residents deciding what local government should deliver?Newzroom Afrika’s Sipha Kema follows the money in Mbhashe.
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nah se le kula now. Someone is feeding dis network ka dirty minds
Leave us alone.am also starting to build mine there next year
Nothing wrong with building in communal actually it is beneficial to our health. This journalist is baised as usual
Bafuna ukungena and overcharge them while providing zero services.
The media is definitely against the Eastern Cape, other provinces have been doing it but now all of sudden its under the spotlight!!!!
The blacks are building all over without proper town planning its been happening for decades and its getting worse !!! This isn’t truly owned by the people building here i can see a disaster happening very soon !! Imagine black south Africans crying they have no land when in fact they getting it for free!!!
Great news coverage, long time coming, on a ticking time bomb.
Cart before the horse. Where in the 1st world did they EVER think of quality of life before survival. Before swlf actualisation. Not in Europe, not in UK, not in USA. No successful, sustainable economy was EVER created like this. The monies ti build these house was derived in a serviced based economy – not tangible product creation and exchange. Value. STILL creaming off the top of a 2nd to none 1st world pre 1994 economy, now floundering drastically.
The insanity.of extracting.feom a yet to be (re) established 1st country to live a 3rd world rural lifestyle with 1st world standards. Insane. Taking from a country before giving. The insanity of self. Africa’s way.