Om \u2019n nuwe eiendom te koop, is \u2019n blye dag, maar oppas of jy \u201cerf\u201d dalk kopsere van die vorige eienaars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit is wat met \u2019n paartjie van Saldanha gebeur het. Nicky en Amadeu Goncalves s\u00ea hulle sukkel reeds \u2019n jaar lank om ontslae te raak van \u2019n waterrekening van R24 000 vir een van hul erwe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By navraag het Ethne Lawrence, woordvoerder van die Saldanhabaai-munisipaliteit, verduidelik \u2019n eienaar is en bly aanspreeklik vir munisipale rekeninge van die datum waarop hulle eienaarskap neem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIndien \u2019n eienaar \u2019n erf koop waar dienste-aansluiting reeds gedoen is, moet \u2019n heraansluiting om dienste-vorm voltooi en \u2019n deposito betaal word. Indien daar geen dienste-aansluitings is nie, doen die eienaar aansoek en betaal die koste ingevolge goedgekeurde tariewe,\u201d s\u00ea sy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In die geval van die Goncalves-paar besit hulle verskeie erwe langs mekaar. Hulle het aan Weslander<\/i> verduidelik hul water- en elektrisiteitstoevoer word slegs vir een van die erwe verkry. \u2019n Probleem wat hulle egter het, is \u2019n waterpunt op die betrokke erf waar talle inwoners met kanne \u201cgratis\u201d water kom haal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aangesien hulle nooit \u2019n wateraansluiting gedoen het nie, is hulle nie verantwoordelik vir di\u00e9 waterverbruik nie, voer hulle aan. Die munisipaliteit stem egter nie saam nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie watermeter was dus alreeds op die eiendom toe die huidige eienaars dit koop. Die vorige eienaar het nie afsluiting om dienste gedoen nie, en die huidige eienaar het ook nie aansoek gedoen vir dienste nie. Waterheffings, die basiese heffing en waterverbruik, het dus voortgegaan op die vorige eienaar se naam,\u201d verduidelik Lawrence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In September is die waterheffing van November 2022 tot Augustus 2023 oorgeplaas van die vorige eienaar se rekening. Bykomend is \u2019n water-deposito op die rekenings gehef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lawrence verduidelik inwoners wat hul munisipale rekening betwis, kan \u2019n herberekening van hul rekening aanvra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die dispuut moet skriftelik en met al die nodige besonderhede ingedien word. Intussen moet die rekening betaal word, wat deur die gemiddelde verbruik bereken sal word. Die munisipaliteit sal \u2019n ondersoek van stapel stuur met die resultate wat met die inwoner gedeel sal word. Daar is \u2019n app\u00e8lproses indien die bevindings nie na wense is nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie eienaar is en bly aanspreeklik [vir die rekening] van die datum van eienaarskap en moet ongemagtigde toegang self hanteer,\u201d s\u00ea die munisipaliteit oor die Goncalves-geval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Die Saldanhabaaiers meen egter di\u00e9 verduideliking is nie korrek nie en <\/span> Om \u2019n nuwe eiendom te koop, is \u2019n blye dag, maar oppas of jy \u201cerf\u201d dalk kopsere van die vorige 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\n s\u00ea die eerste <\/span>
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\n watermeterlesing is <\/span>
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\n byna \u2019n jaar nadat hulle die eiendom gekoop het in September 2023 gedoen. Hulle <\/span>
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\n wend hulle nou na die kantoor van die Wes-Kaapse premier om hulp.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"