Lebone Rodah Mosima
The GOOD party has accused Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis of using the language of redistribution to defend a tariff model it says will still burden working- and lower-middle-class homeowners.
A full bench of the Western Cape High Court last month found that the city’s fixed charges for city-wide cleaning, water and sanitation in its 2025/26 budget were unlawful and invalid.
GOOD said Hill-Lewis had warned that, without the city’s property-value-linked tariff structure, poorer residents could face higher charges.
The mayor has said that using property values to structure fixed charges was intended to protect lower- and middle-income households.
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“If Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis is serious about protecting lower-income households from higher tariffs, he must introduce a progressive tariff system that spares the struggling working and lower-middle classes and targets those who
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