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Original Post Date: 2001-12-13 Time: 13:57:46  Posted By: Jan

This is from Adriana Stuijt at: www.CensorBugBear.com

R7,6-BILLION RATES ARREARS PLUNGE SA INTO CRISIS
DEC 9, 2001 — Freedom Front parliamentarian Pieter Groenewald
warned
this week that South African municipalities are driven into crisis.
They are now owed R7,6-billion total in rates arrears from 1999 and
2000 — and the ongoing culture of refusal to pay rates by black
township residents is placing an increasingly unbearable taxation
burden on the rest of the community.

He warned that South Africa’s “culture of non-payment of rates” is
bankrupting local authorities and also plunging the entire country
into an unprecedented health crisis — the cash shortage due to
non-payment of rates is increasingly causing the collapse of municipal
infrastructures which are supposed to provide clean reticulated water
and electricity to the community.

“This culture of non-payment of municipal rates was actually created
by the African National Congress’ own members in their protest
campaigns over the years, but now the ANC-government will have to take
drastic steps to reign this in. Defaulters are nowincreasingly
bankrupting local authorities, which no longer get enough funding to
provide basic infrastructure services to ratepayers.

“It is unreasonable to expert ratepayers who still pay their bills to
pay higher rates just to accommodate the defaulting communities,” he
pointed out. (Mr Groenewald may be telephoned at (South Africa: 083
627 4397 or 082 551 4517)

He said the rates arrears for previous years were not provided to him
when he requested them in Parliament — however he was provided with
the 1999 and 2000 default totals, and they were broken down by
province as follows:

PROVINCE
DEC1999 ARREARS DEC 2000 ARREARS

Gauteng
4 699 567 407.48 4 216 455 186.12

Free State
709 368 665.28 819 866 285.19

Mpumalanga
532 026 498.96 468 495 020.68

Northern Province
88 671 083.16 234 247 510.34

North West
354 684 332.64 468 495 020.68

Western Cape
1 064 052 997.92 1 405 485 062.04

TOTAL for 1999 and 2000:
R7 448 370 985.44
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SHIPPING : When bulk exports are lost THE millions of tons of coal and
ore shipped to Europe and the Far East from the Republic every year
are dependent on foreign carriers for shipment. While the majority of
cargoes are delivered safely, respected shipping associations,
shipowners and their staff complain that modern bulk carriers tend to
crack up and founder when they develop leaks.
http://www.cbn.co.za/issue/1270102.htm
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Booming child sex and cheap drugs industry draws low-budget tourists
to Cape Town Cape Town has become one of the most popular tourism
destinations in the world because, among other things, youths can find
sex with youngsters at easily affordable prices. Says one young
Londoner, “Sex and drugs play the most important role in the decision
of budget travellers to visit places.”

London copywriter Nick Patten, 26, speaks of a “world tribe” of
backpackers, young people who find sex and drugs around the world —
not exactly the reasons touted by tourism organisations.

‘Cape Town has cheap drugs and unbelievably beautiful girls’
“I know officials will never admit to this, because it could be bad
for a city’s image, but sex and drugs play the most important role in
the decision of budget travellers to visit places,” he said.

“Cape Town has cheap drugs and unbelievably beautiful girls. It helps
that the pound is so strong and I am sure that in the coming years
Cape Town will be flooded with British travellers.”

His travelling companion, Bruce Roberts, agreed: “I see mostly young
people looking for sex and drugs — fun — and they find it.” They
might also find something else: Aids. South Africa has the highest
HIV-Aids infection rates in the world… mroe than 4,5-million people
are Aids-infected in South Africa, and by the year 2003, the country
of 43-million people is expected to reach zero population growth as
its young, child-producing population dies off.

Recently, Business Day warned in a hard-hitting editorial that South
Africa’s violent crime rate — the world’s highest for the past four
years running — meant that South Africa simply wasn’t safe any more.
Period. It was safe neither for investment, nor for people living in
it.

If any investors are still fool enough to even think about keeping
their cash, their factories or even their own families inside South
Africa after reading this particular editorial, they really should
have their heads read… For the sex industry story read:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?newslett=1&click_id=79&art_id=ct2001120
92120306T623258&set_id=1