TARIFF HIKE PROTEST
Concern at slow pace of infrastructure restoration
RATEPAYERS are on the warpath over eThekwini Municipality’s “excessive” tariff increases proposed in a draft budget for 2023/2024.
The newly-formed eThekwini Ratepayers and Residents Association (Erra) will gather before the Durban City Hall on Monday “to tell the mayor that we are not interested in his (proposed) tariff increases until he tells us where our money has gone”.
The city has proposed that its operating budget be increased from the current financial year’s R49.8 billion to R57.9bn for 2023/2024 and that property
