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Watch – How Cape Town's municipal bills are outrunning its middle-class residents

Cape Town homeowners who do not qualify for income-linked rebates are paying municipal bills that have significantly outpaced inflation and salary increases over the past decade as a result of spiralling property valuations and a wave of fixed charges that did not exist 10 years ago. Daily Maverick’s Rebecca Davis explains.

Rebecca Davis
Illustrative image: Daily Maverick/ Multimedia Illustrative image: Daily Maverick/ Multimedia

Reporting by: Rebecca Davis
Edited by: Anda Tolibadi
Filmed by: Joel Seboa
Produced by: Emilie Gambade
Creative lead by: Malibongwe Tyilo
Sub-edited by: Kevin Flynn

Read more here, here and help us track Cape Town's housing crisis here.

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