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A group of enraged residents from Roodepoort
area has just announced plans to ‘secede’ from
the City of Johannesburg and start their own Council. The rebel residents, led
by ‘Colonel’ Darren Wick low, plan to launch a legal challenge to their right to
exist as an independent municipality under the Local Government Act (1999).
The rebels will meet next Saturday from
10am at Tres
Jolie Restaurant and will then proceed to march to the Johannesburg City Hall.
The Council has refused to meet with the rebels branding their actions as
“futile”.
Quotes from Darren Wicklow:
“The City of Johannesburg has ignored us
for too long. Residents in our suburb have been slugged with higher charges
than surrounding suburbs for the last five years”.
“We’re sick of subsidizing the
inefficiencies of a Council that doesn’t represent us”.
“Last week’s rate rise was the final
straw, there’s no turning back now, it’s independence or war”.
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