Tshwane losing millions to non-collection: DA
The failure by the Tshwane municipality to collect R850-million in revenue in the third quarter and the estimated R830-million lost to the botched pre-paid meter contract has impacted the delivery of services. According to DA's finance spokesman, Lex Middelberg, the municipality had a R22-billion operating budget and that 25% of this went to paying salaries and 50% towards buying bulk water and electricity."With R1.7-billion lost to the pre-paid meter contract and from lack of revenue collection, this means there is less than half left for infrastructure maintenance," he said.Middelberg said this was why it took a week instead of a day to fix power and water faults.Tshwane municipality spokesman Selby Bokaba refused to comment.Last week, Tshwane denied DA claims that it had negotiated a hefty exit penalty fee with a defaulting service provider...
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