Chair, I hereby give notice that, at the next sitting of the Council, I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes with utter dismay new reports of manipulated and erroneous margins that determine property rates in the DA-led City of Cape Town;
2) further notes that this rates fiasco will leave thousands of homeowners paying exorbitant rates while thousands of others would score, paying low rates and costing the city hundreds of millions of rand; and
3) acknowledges that the rates fiasco is one of the many scandals of poor governance by the DA and will cost the people of the Western Cape millions of rand, after the inflated costs of the Cape Town Stadium and the BRT system, which together have cost the province billions of rand that could have been used to complete the toilets they built without structures in Khayelitsha and ensure that communities in the townships get better services such as roads, refuse removal and water and sanitation.