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The applicant contends that the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (“the City”) has resolved to levy what the City calls a cleansing levy, for the 2025 / 2026 financial year, commencing on 1 July 2025 and ending on 30 June 2026.  The applicant, acting in the public interest has sought relief reviewing the imposition of the cleansing levy on the basis that the imposition of the levy is unlawful and irrational and further seeks to prevent the City from unlawfully taxing the public.

The applicant submitted that thousands of the members of public will be called upon the pay an unlawful levy for a waste collection service that the City does not provide.  The applicant contends that because of the City’s inability over the years to provide waste collection services, the public was constrained to establish alternative ways of having their waste disposed of at their own cost.