Mafube municipality outstanding debt complaint

Good day. I Abraham Serame Mofokeng with ID Number : ********** 960080, am the current owner of the stand that is situated at 258A Namahadi Frankfort Registered under Mafube municipality, my Father by the name of Tefo Isaac Mofokeng who is late, he passed on in 1994 left the house under my name in which i was made aware of in 2006/2007 i went to the municipality only to find that the house had accumulated some debt and according to my knowledge that debt was supposed to be cancelled as i was the new owner and since 1994 there was no one residing at the house there was no water neither electricity the house had to no roofing, it was only the wall, i was told by the employees that the debt will be cancelled and ill start afresh, to my surprise my wife received a call from a lady who said she was calling from the municipality saying that the house owes +/- R180 000 my wife questioned that how come there's so much outstanding debt, the lady who phoned said there's a mistake and that matter will be resolved and will send an email with the correct amount, we phoned and sent emails no one came back to us up until today.. how am i expected to pay for something i know nothing of and i'm still unemployed and have supporting documents to prove that i'm currently unemployed. i can be contacted on ********** 787. i'd really appreciate it if Helopeter can assist me with this matter i know that you've helped plenty people.