eThekwini Municipality will need an estimated R1.4 billion to cover the costs of the damage to municipal infrastructure following the recent heavy rains.
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If the average Durban municipal office had a smidgen of the energy found in the headquarters of the eThekwini Rates Protest Movement, Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda and his council wouldn’t have to give a fig about Westville Ratepayers' Association Chairperson Asad Gaffar.
Ditsobotla Local Municipality may be the best-known example nationally of misgovernance after dairy company Clover decided to uproot itself and move to KwaZulu-Natal. Officials routinely treat the municipal coffers as their own private piggy bank to be raided at will.