Many if not most South Africans welcome the decline of electoral support for the ANC. But the alarming reality is that the alternatives could be far worse
Filth, frequent electricity and water outages and grotesque E-Coli levels in rivers have angered businesses and residents
Vehicles were stoned on Umgeni Road on Monday morning, while reports of workers sabotaging water pipelines were also received
Opposition from the ANC eThekwini region and a lack of clarity from above put paid to the attempt to intervene in the city
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The slow pace of development in eThekwini was raised at a meeting with Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Ebrahim Patel
Angry ratepayers stormed out of a meeting to discuss the reasons for their rates boycott when mayor Mxolisi Kaunda declared it closed
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Families who were relocated in November 2019 said they were told the project would take 18 months
The team brought in to deal with the financial and administrative morass will present a report once it has been introduced to councillors
Security companies, community policing forums and the police have drawn up contingency plans to stop looting and public violenc
Although the city seems to be stabilising politically, it is heading for an uncertain financial future
Governing party says it cannot be ‘arrogant’ and try to run Durban alone
The protector of the suspended public protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, was targeted by a retired American colonel
Opposition parties plan to strip the ANC of its control of the city
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The former KwaZulu-Natal chairperson fails to make the cut for the 30-member PEC
Feeling sorry for the president’s new spokesperson? Spare a thought for eThekwini’s public reps
Mxolisi Kaunda set up task teams at the eThekwini Disaster Management Centre, visited stricken areas and ensured services are restored
For years we’ve watched eThekwini’s ability to serve its people being eroded by those entrusted to do so. They helped sink the city
The eThekwini mayor says there were incidents of excessive use of force towards Africans at roadblocks controlled by residents
The regional conferences in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal will test the muscle of Cyril Ramaphosa and his faction in the build-up to 2022 congress
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No clear winners after weeks of jostling for 160 hung municipalities
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Three days and three nights of skulduggery keep the Son of Man out of Durban’s mayoral parlour
Flawed process may still end up in court
Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipalities go to the Democratic Alliance, with eThekwini set to follow.
South Africa’s 66 hung municipalities have to constitute councils or face a rerun of elections
The ruling party is scheduled to start interviewing prospective metro mayors this weekend with some usual suspects on the list
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Political feathers are ruffled as deputy mayor candidate Diana Hoorzuk is ‘imposed’ on eThekwini by provincial executive council
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In Madlala, the police and army broke into homes in an operation to retrieve stolen goods. After they left, a woman lay dead in a pool of her blood behind a shack
Ten homeless men who turned a vacant lot into an organic vegetable garden are now reaping the rewards of their toil
But high court rules in favour of the eThekwini municipality, as judge decries ‘political point-scoring’
The corruption-fraught metro is coming to grips with having a municipal manager who is on bail for graft, yet has returned to work
eThekwini’s enterprising parks and recreation department launched the channel, intended to entertain the city’s people during the lockdown, without getting authorisation
The municipality leaves it up to its executive committee and councillors to follow their conscience and contribute what they want to the city’s Covid-19 relief fund.