Billionaire says his golf estate paid its rates bills even though it received no services from the municipality
has played enough golf to spot a ringer. When a local municipality in Mpumalanga tried to stiff him for rates that were about four times higher than before, he called it out. The lot who run the council in Nkomazi, which includes Rupert’s Leopard Creek golf estate on the edge of the Kruger National Park, are probably trying their luck.
Not only did the R3m raised from a Patriotic Alliance gala dinner not find its way to the Central Karoo district municipality, to which it was promised, but Beaufort West, the town where he was once mayor, is still a potholed horror of decay and one of the auditor-general’s worst performers, countrywide. If there’s a photo op and some performative Twitter theatrics, you can bet the so-called kingmaker PA will be there. As for actual management? Not so much.
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