Significantly, the mammoth in the room is avoided in both the opinion piece on South Africa’s municipal crisis and The Mercury’s editorial on the subject (July 28). Whilst credible cases can be made for rapid urbanization and the fact that the...
In June 2023, in terms of section 154 of the constitution, the department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs appointed Drs Sutcliffe and Lubisi to intervene in the chronic shortcomings of eThekwini municipality. Astonishingly...
At a time when eThekwini Metro is beset by so many self-inflicted shortcomings, how does The Mercury justify its headline story concerning the lack of gender parity (April 8)? Those of us who actually pay our utility bills are interested only in...
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...
Complaints about poor service delivery are a daily occurrence. According to a study done in 2016, between 1999 and 2016, there were 67,750 protests -13 every day (see: Mercury, June 15, 2016). Invariably the cause of service delivery protests is...
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