AfriForum awaits ruling on Johannesburg’s controversial water levy

# The Johannesburg High Court has reserved judgment in the case of AfriForum challenging Johannesburg’s water demand management levy, which collects 1.8-billion-rand annually from residents despite ongoing water outages. AfriForum is challenging the legality of a fixed levy of 107-rand-74 per connection, raised by 65.6-percent. AfriForum’s Marais de Vaal urges residents to hold the metro accountable in today’s elections and pledges to continue pursuing transparency and justice on the levy issue: