# The Referendum Party has condemned the City of Cape Town’s proposed eight-percent average rates hike for 2025/2026, saying this is a punishing blow to hardworking ratepayers already buckling under a weak economy. The party’s Robert King says properties valued over 1.5-million-rand will see disproportionate hikes, with those above three-million-rand facing double-digit increases. He argues the scale of these hikes is directly linked to surging migration into Cape Town, much of it from indigent populations:
Referendum Party condemns Cape Town’s proposed 8% average rates hike [SOUND]
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