It is time we insist that the national government spend our taxes on their constitutional mandates
12 August 2021 - 15:30National government fails at so many things it’s probably understandable that wealthier residents of Cape Town believe our rates should be used to compensate for the theft of taxes at national level. It’s a backhanded admission that the DA-led city delivers, and an indictment on the succession of failed ANC governments, but it goes completely against the constitution.
Keith Gottschalk’s letter ignores the fact that rail services are not the mandate of local government, which is charged with spending rates on water and electricity reticulation, sewerage, maintenance of parks and the other provisions of schedule 4b and 5b of the constitution .
Presumably the funding for all of this will come out of ratepayers’ pockets to make up for the lack of resources at national level, where renovations at Nkandla are regarded as more important than funding the railways and police.
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