Chairperson, on behalf of the DA I hereby wish to give notice that at the next sitting of the Council, I will move:
That the House -
1) notes that the information submitted to the NCOP Select Committee on Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs by the Kou-Kamma municipality or the provincial department is not altogether correct as per pp 4213 to 4214 of the ATC dated 23 November;
2) further notes that there are a number of errors that have been made in the financial department of the municipality, such as:
a) of the 4 730 debtors who owed the municipality, an amount of R47 million cannot be correct as there are residents in Clarkson, Church and Basia Streets as well as residents in Smartie Town who have been taxed by the municipality on properties not owned by the residents; b) the DA has submitted a motion, which is attached, to the Kou- Kamma council requesting that the land be transferred into the names of the residents at the cost of the municipality for the following reasons:
i) the Church donated the land;
ii) USAID donated the money;
iii) Kou-Kamma Municipality has not transferred the property since 2005; and
iv) the municipality was requested to reverse the illegal charges against these residents by writing off the debt against their names;
3) requests the Kou-Kamma Municipality to implement the Kou-Kamma Council decision taken in this regard on 12 October 2010, to write off the debt of the Clarkson communities and to transfer the land in terms of the motion into the names ...
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