Another failed ANC project under the guise of the Khawuleza Model launched at the expense of impoverished taxpayers. The ruling ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa, declared that the Khawuleza municipality and environment is the place to create jobs. He launched the so-called metropolitan version for the Khawuleza District Development Model, which is believed to also improve..
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New R28.6 billion project at Ethekwini Municipality just another initiative for ANC government to waste money
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Auto racing on the increase on Durban streets- traffic department says they can’t issue fine tickets because camera system is not functioning properly
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For more than two years, Durban was the racing devil’s race track, as all speed traps with cameras were out of order.
The city had virtually no revenue from speeding violations for two years, and the single traffic violation noticed by traffic officials also did not always result in a fine ticket.
The inexplicable is that the traffic department says they can’t issue a ticket because the camera system is not functioning properly.
However, a spokeswoman for the municipality says it does not mean that the streets of the city are unsafe as the traffic staff “works very hard” to ensure that law and order are maintained.
A reader told Die Vryburger he was aware of several cases where traffic officials “exempted” fines for their friends.
Rats infest Durban CBD because of uncollected rubbish on the streets, Business and tourism now being threatened
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Durban – Traders in the City centre say their businesses and health have been affected by the huge rat population that has continued to grow because of uncollected rubbish on the streets.
They say there has been an overall decline in business and tourism while the condition of buildings has also deteriorated. Areas popular with hawkers such as Warwick Junction Market, Mahatma Gandhi precinct, Berea and Durban Workshop taxi ranks as well as bus terminals have been most affected.
Pinky Nyathela, who trades at the Warwick Junction Market, said the number of rats had tripled since she began trading in 2016. “There are more rats than usual and they are becoming bigger. They are not scared of people, they look straight at you,” she said.
Health experts said the rat infestation posed a great risk which could “explode” if not brought under control.
“The city hasn’t been very good in dealing with this problem. Rats can spread over 35 diseases and carry a
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Sh*thole country? – Swimming, surfing and fishing banned in Durban due to raw sewage in water – surf contest, been called to protect the safety and health of surfers
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Swimming, surfing and fishing have been banned in Durban due to raw sewage in the water. Hundreds of thousands of litres of raw sewage is flowing into the port every hour. The eThekwini municipality’s health unit, on Thursday, ordered the City’s parks, recreation and culture department to ban all bathing on Durban’s beaches until further..
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Illegal protest by eThekwini municipal workers who downed tools, caused R3.5m damage in municipal infrastructure
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The total cost of damage to infrastructure as a result of the illegal protest by eThekwini municipal workers exceeds R3.5m, KwaZulu-Natal premier Willies Mchunu has revealed.
Mchunu was addressing journalists at the department of co-operative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) offices in Mayville, Durban.
“The cost of the damage to date is over R3.5m for eThekwini municipal infrastructure. This excludes impact on the economy, which is still being quantified, and the cost of hiring privately owned water tankers where reservoirs and valves had been tampered with.
“We are informed that 90% of the water services have been restored,” he said.
Mchunu said the protests had affected international guests who had been in the city for the annual Tourism Indaba, Africa’s biggest tourism event which showcases the continent as a good place for business and leisure tourism.
“We now have a situation where hotels housing international guests are without water. On
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Dear Cyril, this is what happens when you compensate for land and businesses, but damn, you guys just can’t farm – Chicken farms bought by eThekwini for R15m left barren
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The farms bought by the eThekwini Municipality from Rainbow Chicken two years ago to save and create jobs have been left barren. The city spent R15million on the acquisition of Uitkomst and Doornrug farms in Cato Ridge when Rainbow Chicken, which has since been renamed RCL Foods Limited, announced the sale of their farms due..
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Illegal land grabs take place in Durban after hundreds of people who are fed up with slow pace of housing delivery allocated plots themselves and start building shacks
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Fed up with the slow pace of housing delivery, hundreds of people have invaded vacant state land earmarked for a low-cost housing project in the Cato Crest informal settlement in Durban.
The residents descended on land in Mary Thipe Road, which boarders Mayville and Manor Gardens, on Monday and Tuesday and started clearing the bushes and allocating themselves plots to start building shacks.
While many residents were not willing to be interviewed or photographed, Happy Zwane told TimesLIVE that she was clearing the bush so that she could build her two children a home to leave them with when she dies.
“I have two children and I’m not married and I want to clear a plot for them so that when I die they would have a place to live. I don’t have a place of my own because I don’t own the place I live in. So I want to live my children with a home,” she said.
Others complained about being used as voting fodder by political parties and blamed the ANC for failing to de
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This is how ANC waste taxpayers money – After a year, R20 million’s Casspirs has not yet made their appearance
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After almost R20 million was paid for the provision of three armored vehicles to the eThekwini municipality a year ago, there is still no sign of the vehicles. Vehicle licensing is now reported as the reason for the delay. Read the original article in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
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N2 protest: Burning tyres and confusion brings Durban drivers to a halt
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Durban drivers on the N2 were left stranded in a massive traffic backlog on Tuesday morning. Protesters blocked part of the busy highway with burning tyres just one day after rubbish was dumped in a similar area.
The N2 Durban bound was the area in question on Tuesday morning. A similar incident also took place in the uMbongintwini area.
“Police have an idea of who could have done this and arrests are expected to be made. Tyres were placed across all the lanes and then set alight. This has caused a severe traffic backlog. Vehicles had to be diverted from the N2 in Isipingo onto the M4,” Sewpersad said.
With a blockage of that scale, drivers had been attempting to utilise the emergency lanes to get past the tyres, an act police have urged motorists not to partake in.
When the fire department arrives on the scene, it has been unable to use the emergency lanes to put out the fire and remove the debris.
At this stage, police have admitted that they are n
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Durban is slowly becoming a seaside city without any sand
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Durban is becoming a seaside city without any sand as strong waves pummel its beaches and the city’s sand pumping efforts come to naught.
Swathes of what used to be wide stretches of sand are now under water and beachside infrastructure, including a booster pump station at Dairy Beach, is being destroyed.
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Protesters gather outside Durban ICC over city’s proposed ‘secrecy’ law
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Civil society organisations staged a protest outside Durban’s International Convention Centre on Wednesday against a controversial set of rules proposed by the eThekwini municipality which‚ critics say‚ seeks to ban the public and the media from attending meetings and accessing information. The organisations have described the proposed Rules of Order Amendment By-law as unconstitutional and..
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ZUMA MAY BE LINKED TO VIOLENCE: COMMISSION PROBING INTO KZN POLITICAL KILLINGS
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Community activist Vanessa Burger told the commission even President Jacob Zuma is involved through those supporting him in KZN. The Moerane Commission investigating political killings in KwaZulu-Natal has heard how President Jacob Zuma may be linked to the violence. The inquiry is probing the underlying cause of tensions in the province and why no arrests..
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Angry shack dwellers march on Durban city hall: protesting about mayor’s politics of lies and oppression
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Durban – About 700 members of shack dwellers movement Abahlali Basemjondolo on Monday marched to Durban City Hall to protest mayor Zandile Gumede’s “politics of lies and oppression”. “This protest is about the latest brutal evictions and killings of our members that have been taking place within the last two weeks within the city, where..
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Durban municipality digs up old graves to recycle it – It could be your loved ones grave next?
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A Durban North man is left wondering if his family grave in Glenwood will last. When Stephan Bruwer’s family decided to install a new granite tombstone on the grave in Stellawood Cemetery, he visited the grave two weeks ago and was astonished to find eThekwini Municipality employees digging up an old grave a few spaces..
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