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SANTA LUCIA PROPERTY AUCTION CALLED OFF AT 11TH HOUR

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MBABANE – The auction of Santa Lucia Funeral Services’ property, which had been slated to go under the hammer on Friday, was cancelled at the eleventh hour.


According to legal notice number 165 of 2018 Lot 489 in Pigg’s Peak the property ought to have been sold by public auction at the Mbabane Magistrates Court starting from 10am but was called off due to undisclosed reasons.


Deputy Sheriff Nkosingphile Dlamini, who was supposed to conduct the auction, confirmed that it had been cancelled. He did not want to delve on the merits as to what led to the cancellation.


The reserve price of the property which sits on a property measuring 2 166 square metres was E1.4 million. The sale would have been conducted pursuant to a warrant of execution in the matter between Pigg’s Peak Town Council and Santa Lucia Funeral Services.    

  
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mzwandile Ndzinisapreviously said that as a local authority, in line with their Integrated Development Plan (IDP), they used a couple of strategies in order to encourage property owners to pay their rates.


This includes providing incentives to property owners who pay their rates religiously, through running ‘pay your rates in full and win campaign’, where rates payers are rewarded with prizes.


For instance, prizes such as an LED TV set, stove, fridge and grocery vouchers were won by deserving rates payers during previous financial years.
He mentioned that they also conducted a stakeholder meetings; they also educated the town’s residents and property owners on rates payment and other issues relating to their operations.


He emphasised that it was not council’s intention to auction rates payer’s property for outstanding rates, however, when all strategies had failed together with other means for rates recovery as stated in Rating Act (1995), such answer, issuing reminders for rates due and publishing list of rates defaulters in the print media, they then institute legal proceedings, in order to recover outstanding rates.

 

 

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