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Ilembe Mayor Sduduzo Gumede, KwaDukuza Mayor Ricardo Mthembu joined by the Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube on a Masakhane campaign, aimed at encouraging community members and the business owners to pay for services such as water, electricity, traffic fines and rates. The MEC and Mayors walked around the town of KwaDukuza, checking illegal connections, cleaning, visiting non-paying business owners and conducting a road block, before addressing the community at Darnall near Stanger on 10.05.18<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The MEC for the KwaZulu-Natal department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nomusa Dube-Ncube together with the Mayor of KwaDukuza Local Municipality signed a pledge with ratepayers associations, big business and community members in regards to speedy payment for services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This ground-breaking initiative is part of the department ongoing Revenue Enhancement Campaign themed <\/span>\u201cPay Your Levies – Nothing for Mahhala\u201d<\/i><\/b>. This campaign seeks to encourage communities to take responsibility for Municipal Services by ensuring they pay on time every month. <\/span><\/p>\n

At the signing Dube-Ncube explained the importance the pledge that they have undertaken today, \u201cAs government we understand the importance of Municipalities delivering services on time. in signing this pledge together with all stakeholder including big business we are agreed that local government is everyone’s business. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are also agreeing that fighting between local government and ratepayers associations is not helping us to elevate the state of our Municipalities. As an example the Ilembe district alone is owed R250 Million by big business and government departments. This amount of money if collected could go a long way in helping us to usher in a better life for all\u201d continued Dube-Ncube. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very grateful with the engagement that we had in the morning with businesses that are owing because they made an undertaking to pay back what is due to our municipalities. We are not going to rest until the debt that is owed to this sphere of government in the Province is collected\u201d said Dube-Ncube.<\/span><\/p>\n

The MEC also urged community members to be ambassadors of doing the right thing by paying for levies and services rendered by our Municipalities.<\/span><\/p>\n

The next stop \u00a0for this important campaign will the in the Mgungundlovu District, in the Msunduzi Local Municipality.<\/span><\/p>\n

Media enquiries: KZN Cogta spokespersons Lennox Mabaso, 082 884 2403; and Msawakhe Mayisela, 060 966 4220; or Sphe Ngobese, 073 784 7822<\/b><\/p>\n

Ends.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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