City of Johannesburg residents claim the billing system is again a mess. (Image by Nicola Mawson_Wikimedia Commons and Freepik)
EXCLUSIVE: A MULTI-BILLION RAND TECHNOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE has plunged Johannesburg into chaos, as city officials are caught in a BLATANT LIE, denying a catastrophic billing system collapse while residents face ILLEGAL DISCONNECTIONS and financial ruin. For over a DECADE, a revolving door of failed SAP software “upgrades”—costing taxpayers HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS—has systematically robbed citizens, and now the entire city’s financial infrastructure is in FREE-FALL.
SHOCKING internal leaks, obtained by the DA, CONFIRM payments have VANISHED into a digital void since January 19th. The city’s payment system is NOT “talking to” its billing system, meaning YOUR MONEY has disappeared after you paid. Yet, in a move of STAGGERING AUDACITY, the city’s communications director, Kgamanyane Maphologela, issued a press release dismissing the crisis as “misleading social media claims.” This is not a glitch—it’s a SYSTEMATIC COVER-UP of epic incompetence.
This is a DÉJÀ VU disaster. In 2011, 65,000 residents were hit with INFLATED BILLS and threats. A CRIMINAL CHARGE was even laid against then-finance head Parks Tau, now a national minister. The same corrupt cycle repeats: botched tech, public denial, and citizen suffering. Staff have been secretly ordered to STOP ACCEPTING PAYMENTS at centers, while the city publicly claims “business as usual.”
This is more than a billing error; it is a DELIBERATE ASSAULT on public trust, exposing a government that would rather gaslight its people than fix a problem it created with YOUR money. The very officials tasked with stewardship have engineered a reality where your payment is a donation to a black hole of incompetence. How many more millions must vanish before we admit the system isn’t broken—it’s designed to fail?
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
