A FAMOUS GROUSE
A PREPOSTEROUS letter of demand arrived at the Mahogany Ridge this week. Nkhumeleni Ramada, a revenue collections agent with the City of Johannesburg, writes:
“Gooday, I have been trying to get through to you and I can’t be able to find you. So your account is on arrears of R6 432.89, can you please make the payment in order for you to avoid disconnection.” (sic)
Included was an invoice marked for my urgent attention for rates and services provided by the city for the month of May 2014. A total of R11 533.15 was outstanding, of which R6 433 was due last month, on June 20.
Ramada has some catching up to do. By May this year the amount outstanding was R43 731.
Which is weird, you will agree, for a property I sold back in November 2013 when, in a fit of passive aggression, I severed ties with the mining camp.