There must be many in eThekwini who are appalled and outraged at the expense of R22 million of ratepayers’ money on statues to commemorate OR Tambo and Nelson Mandela (The Mercury, 2 June). Even if eThekwini’s finances were in order...
There can be no doubt that the diminishing corps of ratepayers share the scepticism of the DA’s Martin Meyer and the IFP’s Otto Kunene at the ANC’s insistence that a Section 154 intervention will enable eThekwini recover its capacity to meet its...
Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda claims that since the Queen Mary 2 paid a very brief visit to Durban harbour, one swallow makes a summer and, therefore, eThekwini’s tourism is now revived. But the front page report in The Mercury of April 6 of the demise of...
eThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda’s message of welcome to delegates at last week’s Transformation Summit (The Mercury, March 1)is both ironic and disingenuous, particularly with regard to the slogan he boasts –“By 2030 eThekwini will be Africa’s...
The failure of the eThekwini Council to hold its scheduled monthly meeting because of haggling within the ruling coalition as to who should be appointed deputy mayor illustrates exactly where the priorities of certain elements of this Council lie...
After interviewing 27 candidates, the protracted exercise within eThekwini municipality to appoint a new metro manager seems to have run out of road (The Mercury, June 2). According to a survey made last June, of the 257 municipalities, only 27...
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