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Buffalo City Metro ratepayers should brace themselves for steep tariff hikes in the 2024/2025 financial year.

After voicing concerns about the quality of Buffalo City Metro’s tap water over the Easter weekend, ratepayers in parts of Mdantsane will have to wait another week to receive clean water.

Buffalo City Metro communities are beginning to feel the pain of the city’s spending cuts after it pulled the plug on its multimillion-rand ward-based projects. According to the ward allocation programmes report, seen by the Dispatch, 14 wards had not touched their millions by the time the freeze was implemented towards the end of 2023, while others managed to spend between R6,000 and R900,000 per ward.

Buffalo City Metro’s municipal public accounts committee — a watchdog over the city’s finances — has been questioned after it booked accommodation for councillors attending a meeting held at the East London ICC.At the heart of the queries was why councillors should be booked into a hotel to attend the three-day meeting when it was held in their hometown.

Buffalo City Metro said its managers have been instructed to interrogate doctor's certificates submitted by employees who are on sick leave in a bid to curb abuse of the process.