City of Ekurhuleni makes inroads in debt collection
Revenue enhancement task team recoups money owed to the municipality.
The City of Ekurhuleni’s finance department is pleased with the work done by the task team for revenue enhancement in recovering money owed by residents and businesses to the municipality.
The committee began work last month to recover the outstanding debt. By the end of March, the projection is that about R2b will be recouped.
Meanwhile, outstanding debt in the system amounts to more than R22b.
MMC for Finance, Economic Development and ICT, Fanyana Nkosi, is delighted to see this move quickly bear fruit because it allows service delivery to be bolstered and improves life for residents.
The city’s operations were mostly hampered by wide-ranging cases of non-payment by those using the services provided by the municipality.
In some cases, the services were accessed via illegal electricity connections. Officials are finding those culprits, disconnecting them and forcing them to pay their overdue accounts.
