Covid-19 sees Gauteng suffer R8.6bn revenue loss
The various municipalities in Gauteng have suffered revenue losses of R8.6 billion due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
This was revealed by Gauteng Cooperative Governance MEC Lebogang Maile on Wednesday.
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Maile was briefing the media on key challenges experienced by municipalities during Covid-19.
He said that the metros were the hardest hit by the pandemic.
"Collectively, our municipalities under-collected revenue by roughly R2.6 billion in April, R2.4 billion in May, R2.billion in June and around R2 billion in July.
"So that means, in just that four months period, we saw municipalities lose over R8.6 billion in revenue collection at a period when service delivery demands are increasing and urgent, owing to Covid-19.”
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