Cities, private companies owe public works department millions in rent

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Johannesburg featured prominently on the list, with about R9m in unpaid rent.

Pretoria and Cape Town are the biggest culprits, owing about R37m and R11m respectively for leased properties.

In a recent written parliamentary response to the DA’s Patricia Kopane, public works and infrastructure minister Patricia De Lille said 11 cities had failed to pay a total of about R76m in rent for buildings leased from the department. It was followed by Kimberley with about R6m and Mmabatho, a town outside Mahikeng, which owed about R4m.Kopane asked De Lille which private entities regularly failed to pay rental fees on time.

From her response, it appeared Telkom owed the department about R8m in unpaid rent. An entity called Inter Travel Shops owed the department about R2m.

 

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