AfriForum challenges City of Joburg water levy [SOUND]

# AfriForum has launched an urgent High Court application to challenge the City of Johannesburg’s 65.6-percent increase in its water demand management levy. AfriForum’s Deidré Steffens argues the metro failed to provide adequate justification or methodology for the increase. From 1 July, households could be charged over 107-rand a month regardless of water usage. She emphasised that the lack of transparency undermined meaningful public participation and urges the court’s intervention: