municipal service – means a service that a municipality in terms of its powers and functions provides or may provide to or for the benefit of the local community irrespective of whether:
Basic municipal services means a municipal service necessary to ensure an acceptable and reasonable quality of life, which service – if not provided – would endanger public health or safety or the environment.
Municipal tariff means a tariff for services which a municipality may set for the provision of a service to the local community, and includes a surcharge on such tariff;
Municipal Systems Act means the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act No. 32 of 2000);
Sewage means a combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface, and storm waters as may be present.