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Eyewitness News
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Eyewitness News
BOSA rejects City of Cape Town's tariff increases
CAPE TOWN - Build One South Africa (BOSA) has rejected the City of Cape Town's tariff comes as the window for public comment on the proposed increases to rates and other services closes on party argues that extra costs will worsen the lives of Cape Town residents, particularly those living in low-income added that the tariff increases don't accommodate all citizens and their monthly political party handed over a copy of its submission to the mayor's office on Roger Solomons said the increase would cause more suffering."It's going to affect every Capetonian family very hard. It's an increase in the normal rates, there's an increase in water and sanitation, there's over 20% increase in electricity. Cape Town families are already struggling to put food on the table, pay for transport, school fees... it is utterly disgusting." Solomons said the public must have a chance to participate in these decisions.
Eyewitness News
14-05-2025
- Business
- Eyewitness News
BOSA's Maimane launches 'Budget to the people' initiative at Parliament
CAPE TOWN - Build One South Africa (BOSA) leader Mmusi Maimane has launched his party's "Budget to the people" initiative at Parliament to mobilise and give citizens a chance to make inputs. The party said the initiative would ask South Africans exactly what they wanted to see in the national budget, which Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana will table in exactly a week. The initiative will span the next seven days through budget community town halls, including a digital service to canvass South African views. Maimane said that BOSA would ask South Africans one simple question: "What do you want to see in the national budget?" He said that the last two attempts to table the national budget had been marred by "political infighting" and a "deadlock" within the Government of National Unity (GNU), paralysing Parliament while citizens continue to suffer. He said that it was time to listen to citizens and what they wanted to be included in the budget. "We begin and we launch this tour of going around and seeing people, asking them their input in what we would like to call the people's budget tour. It will be a seven-day mobilisation where we will hear from ordinary South Africans about what they want to see. We will be going around asking them." Maimane said that during the initiative, BOSA would be engaging citizens on the party's growth charter, a blueprint for how South Africa can grow the economy at 5% per year. "For too long, national budgets have served the connected first, and the citizens second. This budget is not just a financial document. It tells us who and what the government truly values. Our 'Budget to the people' initiative is about shifting that power back to the people of South Africa," said Maimane.
