R16,000 goes down the drain
A WOMAN has lost R16,000 paying for services incurred at an RDP house she does not occupy.
DROWNING IN DEBT: Sylvia Busisiwe Mogali of Zithobeni township in Bronkhorstspruit has never lived in the RDP house allocated to her. The building was completed in 2001 and immediately occupied illegally by another family. Photo: Tsheko Kabasia
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Sylvia Mogali of Zithobeni township in Bronkhorstspruit, Gauteng, said the City of Tshwane, her employer, has since January been deducting R4,000 from her salary for an accrued water and electricity bill.
Mogali was unemployed when she applied for the RDP house while staying at a hostel.
"In 2000, I applied for an RDP house which was allocated the following year.
"But when I went to the house on Makhubedu Street in Extension 2, I found another person already occupying the house.
"They gave me a title deed, but the man in the house insisted it was his," she said.
The Public Protector ordered that she take ownership of the house and that the council find alternative accommodation for the illegal occupants.
"So far nothing has happened. I lived in a back-yard shack at my parents' house," Mogali said.
She found a clerical job with the City of Tshwane in 2005 and bought a house of her own in 2007.
But, from January this year the council started deducting money from her salary.
Mogali said the council had promised to look into the matter.
The City of Tshwane could not explain why the house was given to the other family and why the Public Protector's recommendations were ignored.
The city's Brenda Mpitsang said: "We have informed the financial services department of Ms Sylvia Mogali' s predicament for a possible relief." - selebim@sowetan.co.za
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TjoVtjo
Vavi states that he would never join the DA and Helen Zille because their ediologies don't find congruence. When will he realise that Cosatu and the ANC also don't havee goal congruence? Surely it's time Cosatu went at it alone, as a Labour Party. Only then will the ANC find it's own roots as a party for the Elite by the Elite, and our votes can be channeled accordingly. This whole broad church BS won't work for too much longer before we begin to all seek an ulternative to the farce. Come vavi do it now in 2014 before it's too late and the masses start rioting against "OUR LIBERATORS".Report Abuse
ntebo
first deduction you should have done something le wena manReport Abuse
Hoshpelepelewa26Zikuphi
Eish batho ba gola khantle R4000 deducted how much is left after shooooooo!Report Abuse
golezwa
is that the correct photo???Report Abuse
PUPU
As we all know kunguni and nokeng municipality where taken over by tshwane municipality some of the problem was caused by wrong data migrated on the system now tshwane must answear information they only migrated.Report Abuse
mthosam
govt employees incompetency, haaa! grade 12s employed for degree qualifying candidates, viva comrades viva.Report Abuse
Shredder
@mthosamgovt employees incompetency, haaa! grade 12s employed for degree qualifying candidates, viva comrades viva.
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I work in the IT company, majority of white people who have been there for sometime also have standard 10 and no degrees. Viva mthosam Viva
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iPhone4
Shredder std 10? That one is well educated they have JC!!!Report Abuse
Catswhiskers
What is far more scary is how the City of Tshwane can deduct so much money from one of its employees for whatever reason without an agreement?Surely some or other labour law is broken here.
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Poponas
Bra Sylvia,pls make a follow up ka ntho tsa hao.Report Abuse
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