Unfair manicipal charges not paid buy the building company

I applies for a house in 2022 November .new development I waited until last year. In February the started purchasing the land and promised that it will take 3 month to build the house. They only started to build in August mind you manicipality I found out yesterday was charging me from February last year for empty land and didn't even receive statements.

Manicipality was charging me R783 monthly from February to June and it increased the rates from July I was charged R821 for empty land .

In August when they started building housing for all was suppose to pay for all installations of water,sewer and Electricity and water usage for building the house . That month only I was charged more than RR12000 and they claim it was my rates and taxes . I started to move in the house Sunday 01 of June 2025. I couldn't load electricity .

I went to Manicipality only to find out I Owe R20000 on my account .I tried to talk to housing for all to fix this as it is not possible for a person to be billed R12000 a month for rates and taxes but they told me they only owe R190 and they don't know what else manicipality was charging me for .

They handed over to me a house that is filthy in the yard ,full of grass and the yard not leveled.when it rains water goes inside the house. What they sold me on the picture and what they saying now it is something that is not good. They told me it is not their responsibility to level the yard or remove the grass .

This people they took their time not building because they know they will not be billed by manicipality and they not paying full the installation bills. My house was fully financed by my bank but I entered the house that owes R20000 and they didn't explain this first day when signing or selling the houses to us ,they told us when all is signed that rates and taxes will be our responsibility but there is no way rates and taxes can be R20000 whey I was charged R783 for 15 months waiting for them to finish the house .

I need them to fix the manicipal bill they owing and stop playing with people and be truthful when they sell houses to people on that they will pay for empty land while they take their time to start building so people can know who they are dealing with