DEAR Editor;

For the last 24 years I have been having problems with the municipality.

They always cut my grass in October and then only towards the middle or end of January the next year.

The workers only work for about two hours a day, and the rest of the time they eat or sleep. It looks like there is no supervision taking place.

Most of the public are so sick and tired of the fact their grass never gets cut on time, that they cut it themselves, to get it nice and neat and this is what the workers want and like.
They smile all the way to the bank, then they don’t have to do anything. I am sure these people are earning good money.

I filled in a complaints form on November 29 at the Uvongo offices to ask them to cut my grass. My grass was already very long on that date.

I went to see them again with no response from them.

On January 17 this year, I went to the Uvongo offices again and then to the Margate offices, to tell them that I will not be paying rates this month for two of my properties.

I saw a gentleman who told me to leave everything in his hands. Within hours he organised people to cut my grass.

I can see that the municipality has a lot of people working for them, and everybody is getting massive salaries.

There are a lot of them not doing their work. They are pushing up their prices yearly. Is this mainly for salary increases?

When is it going to stop? Most of our people are pensioners and they are not getting increases every year.

There are people getting electricity, water and rates all for free.

A friend of mine owning properties in Pretoria showed me that he is paying much less for rates than what he is paying here for properties of the same value.

The farmers are also paying rates now and the municipality is doing absolutely nothing for them.

I travelled on the road from Izotsha to Kokstad. The first part is tarred and full of holes.
The second part is a dirt road and not scraped for years.

Somebody told me that they have three scraping machines that are standing at a police station doing nothing.

I would like everybody who is experiencing problems with the cutting of their grass or any other problems to join me, to stop the payment of rates for this month, to get the municipality to do their work.

FRUSTRATED

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