City of Johannesburg unfailingly ***********

Once again City Of Johannesburg is sticking it to me. I always pay my rates and electricity as soon as I receive their bill. Now they have reversed all charges back to 2015 and come up with new charges where I now owe R22 000. On closer examination it would appear they have the wrong reading (even though the meter is a new smart meter). You might think this would be easily remedied but the last time they did this it took many month of legal threats and cutting off my water before they unapoligetically corrected it (actually they did nothing: the next reading resulted in an automatic crrdit). Their ********* lawyers were quite happy to push their legal fees on despite my sending them a photo of the street meter and inviting them to simply drive past and check for thems elves. God help me now; pay first and query later!