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Sedibeng government institution buildings in arrears targeted for electricity disconnections.
Vereeniging - Finance and Revenue MMC Cllr. Hassan Mako officially launched the electricity disconnection campaign for government institutions that owe the municipality on Monday, 25 April 2022. The campaign is a credit control measure aimed at improving revenue collection in the municipality.
Cllr. Mako lead the revenue department team and Red Ants to Vereeniging CBD to carry out disconnections. Over 18 buildings housing several government institutions were targeted. Mako oversaw the disconnections of the South African Police Service (SAPS) training center, the Department of Labour and other key buildings in Merriman Avenue, Vereeniging.
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As the rollout of disconnections are now underway in the municipality, MMC Mako appealed with all municipal account holders with arrears dating back to 31st May 2021 to register for the incentive scheme to avoid disconnections.
“The drive to visit government institutions with the disconnection campaign is to deal with the constantly growing consumer debt due to non-payment. Recovering monies owed to the municipality will help the institution to successfully deliver on its constitutional mandate of providing adequate services. To improve collection strategies, we have introduced the Incentives Scheme to offer a discount to residential account holders and businesses with arrears,” Mako said.
Disconnection of government institutions forms part of a bigger plan by the municipality to recoup millions in services owed by business and residential account holders. The municipality will soon phase in water restrictions to improve revenue collection.
“For account holders to avoid these credit control measures, we are once again calling upon consumers to take advantage of the Incentive Scheme to avoid disconnections, the call is equally extended to government institutions,” Mako added.
Since MMC Hassan Mako officially launched the credit control campaign, over 30 accounts owing the municipality over 10 million have been disconnected. The municipality will be disconnecting 323 business accounts this month to recoup a little under 312 million.