Morning all, there has been a news article on www.iol.co.za (link to article http://bit.ly/2GLIzge) providing more insight into the recent increase in evaluations. In some cases, evaluations with increases in excess of 500% have been reported. Some highlights of the article: - The city said ratepayers, residents and stakeholders have until the end of February to comment on the proposed rates policy.* - The mayoral committee member for finance, Funzela Ngobeni, said residential property statistics showed that only 4.61% of properties had decreased in value.* - Another 40.71% of properties increased between 21% and 40%, and 30.65% of properties were up between 41% and 60%.* - About 8% of properties increased between 61% and 80% and 2.2% of properties increased between 81% and 100%, while 3.38% of properties increased by more than 100%.* - Ngobeni said CAB Holdings, which was registered only last year and had only two directors, was appointed to do the posting of the Section 49 notices.* Please share your stories by either commenting in the petition page or emailing ratesmustfall@gmail.com. Please share the petition to garner more signatures. We need to place pressure on the City officials. #JhbRatesMustFall