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Joburg's losses pile up
The Citizen
|November 13, 2025
BILLING CHAOS: RESIDENTS FIGHT ABUSE, RACK UP COURTROOM VICTORIES
ON GOLDEN POND A boatman paddles his boat in Dal Lake during sunset in Srinagar, northern India, yesterday. Picture: AFP
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Despite a string of courtroom defeats exposing unlawful disconnections, billing chaos and valuation abuses, the City of Joburg insists it cannot disclose the very cases that have brought it to heel.
Citing privacy laws and procedural constraints, the city has refused to provide councillors or the public with a list of adverse judgments, cost orders, or disciplinary outcomes even as residents continue to win scathing rulings in the High Court in Johannesburg.
Legal practitioners say the courts are stepping in where municipal systems have failed, but the city's response suggests a bureaucracy more committed to shielding itself than to reform.
This story is from the November 13, 2025 edition of The Citizen.
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