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IMIESA
January 16, 2018
Traffic flow in the Mount Edgecombe area has improved significantly since the upgraded 4-lane Flanders Drive M41 Bridge was recently opened. The new bridge and interchange, which links Mount Edgecombe to the Cornubia Business Hub, has effectively doubled the number of lanes crossing the M41 asÃÂ ...
IMIESA
January 16, 2018
The eThekwini Municipality says its kerbside recycling programme has been put on hold until the end of January when it expects collection services to resume. The City was forced to halt its kerbside collection services after MPact, the City's recycling partner, shut down operations to repair its recycling plantÃÂ ...
IMIESA
January 10, 2018
3 Dustbins Waste workers in the eThekwini Municipality's Outer West Region have once again downed tools despite the City's ultimatum aimed at getting waste collection services up and running after recent strike action. The municipality on Tuesday announced that refuse removal services had resumedÃÂ ...
Citizen
January 9, 2018
eThekwini Municipality said on Tuesday that the City's refuse removal services have resumed after its Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) employees reported to work after they had downed tools last week. On Friday, hundreds of eThekwini's EPWP workers embarked on a strike demanding to beÃÂ ...
IMIESA
January 8, 2018
The eThekwini Municipality has cautioned residents, especially those in the outer West areas, to use water sparingly. This is as a result of the lower than normal supply of water to these areas according to the municipality. “An investigation is currently underway to determine the reason for the decreasedÃÂ ...
SowetanLIVE Sunday Wolrd
January 8, 2018
The eThekwini Municipality will erect steel cages around city bridges in an effort to stifle rock-throwing attacks. They had been travelling from Umhlanga to Stanger when a rock thrown from a bridge tore through their car. The rock ripped through the windshield and hit Amina - the force of impact causing herÃÂ ...
Rising Sun Overport
January 4, 2018
One company is responsible for erecting a number of illegal billboards without following due processes. January 4, 2018. The city of Durban. FILE PHOTO. eThekwini Municipality has been removing a number of illegal billboards that have been erected across the city without proper processes being followed. This is as aÃÂ ...
Times LIVE
January 3, 2018
Opposition parties in the eThekwini municipality are spitting mad over their exclusion from the city's official 2018 calendar‚ which only features the faces of ANC councillors from the executive committee. The calendar‚ reportedly already up in some municipal offices‚ has a large picture of eThekwini mayorÃÂ ...
Independent Online
December 23, 2017
DURBAN - IRREGULAR awarding of contracts, non-compliance with supply chain management procurement processes and the late payment of suppliers have cost the eThekwini Municipality a clean audit. Once such irregularity related to the awarding of a multimillion-rand housing project to power coupleÃÂ ...
Southlands Sun
December 20, 2017
eThekwini urges holidaymakers to use water sparingly. Play your part in saving water this festive season. December 20, 2017. EThekwini Municipality has urged holiday resorts and holidaymakers to use water sparingly. Play your part in saving water this festive season by following these suggestions: • Fix leaking taps orÃÂ ...
Independent Online
December 14, 2017
DURBAN - It took 28 minutes to speak to an eThekwini Municipality employee at the Electricity Contact Centre as their automated recording said: “We are experiencing high call volumes. Your call will be answered as soon as an agent is available.” However, it is not just the Electricity Contact Centre (080ÃÂ ...
Independent Online
December 7, 2017
Various civil society groups met outside the Durban International Convention Centre (ICC) to call for transparent governance, to defend media freedom and to oppose the amendment to the eThekwini Municipality's Rules of Order which, if passed, will bar the media and public from participating in council ...
eNCA
December 7, 2017
“eThekwini municipality is trying to do the very same thing… We want to know what is happening with our money. Issues of corruption, we want to be there so that we expose them - we want to name and shame them,” Right2Know's Thabane Miya said. While civil society organisations protested in rainy ...
Independent Online
December 6, 2017
WATCH: Civil society protests against eThekwini's media gag law .... DURBAN- Civil society staged a vociferous protest against the eThekwini's Municipality's proposed media gag by-law on Wednesday. Despite the ... where the eThekwini Municipality councillors converged for a full council meeting.
IMIESA
December 5, 2017
EThekwini Mayor Zandile Gumede has tasked senior management from Durban Solid Waste to work with the Mayoral Parlour to clean up the City. The joint operation will focus on accelerating the pace of tasks such as grass cutting and tree and litter removal so that the city will be clean for Christmas.
Independent Online
December 5, 2017
We can't have Christmas in this filth - eThekwini mayor. KwaZulu-Natal / 5 December 2017, 10:00am / Bheki Mbanjwa. Mayor Zandile Gumede has decried the state of eThekwini Municipality, saying more effort needs to go into cleaning up even the outskirts of the city. File picture: Sibonelo Ngcobo/ANA. Durban - Mayor ...
Independent Online
December 5, 2017
Durban - Zandile Gumede, mayor of the eThekwini Municipality said at an Executive Committee on Monday that a team of senior management from the Mayoral Parlour and Durban Solid Waste will work with supervisors from service departments responsible for keeping the city clean. Gumede said that it ...
Independent Online
December 5, 2017
A hi-tech attendance system, which is to go out to tender, will cut down instances of staff illicitly ditching work, thus saving eThekwini municipality millions. ... Durban - The eThekwini municipality is set to install hi-tech time attendance data collection devices at many of its sites, as it seeks to keep tabs on staff ...
Rising Sun Overport
November 28, 2017
The Invest Durban Strategy, driven by partnerships between eThekwini Municipality and the private sector, plus other organs of government, ...
Independent Online
November 25, 2017
Durban - The eThekwini Municipality is hoping that the two plots of land it is eyeing to acquire will solve its lack of burial space problems for the ...
Independent Online
November 21, 2017
Durban - Opposition parties in the eThekwini council have slated mayor Zandile Gumede for the postponement of executive committee ...
Daily Maverick
November 21, 2017
Badly run cities are quickly descending into sheer chaos. Nowhere is that more evident than eThekwini Municipality. By NICOLE GRAHAM.
Highway Mail
November 18, 2017
The seminar was held as part of an International Fraud Awareness week by the eThekwini Municipality with its partner, the Association for ...
Independent Online
November 16, 2017
The scene of a home in Amanzimtoti where the bones and skull of a human were discovered by a gardener earlier this week. Picture: SAPS.
News24
November 16, 2017
... High Court set aside the latest tender award, to 37 new contractors in August this year – with the agreement of the eThekwini municipality.
Southlands Sun
November 16, 2017
Mayor Zandile Gumede said this is indeed a proud moment for Durban and eThekwini Municipality. “Durban's recent winning streak is ...
Mail & Guardian
November 9, 2017
Civil society organisations in Durban are concerned that soon-to-be-adopted eThekwini metro council rules limiting the flow of information from ...
Independent Online
November 5, 2017
Durban - The Democratic Alliance in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday called for a full investigation into security companies operating in the eThekwini ...
IMIESA
October 27, 2017
The eThekwini Municipality will host the Reinforcing African Sanitation Operators Partnerships (RASOP) benchmarking visit with stakeholders ...
Berea Mail
October 27, 2017
Tozi Mthethwa, head of communications for eThekwini Municipality, said this comes after Speaker William Mapena asked members of the ...
News24
October 26, 2017
They were allegedly removed by eThekwini metro police who were armed with shotguns and municipal security guards. The DA had invited the ...
Independent Online
October 26, 2017
Durban - The full council sitting at City Hall was disrupted for about 30 minutes on Thursday by Bottlebrush residents in Ward 71, Chatsworth, ...
Rising Sun Overport
October 26, 2017
Organised by the national Department of Social Development in partnership with the eThekwini Municipality and the KZN Provincial Govender, ...
News24
October 26, 2017
The DA had invited the residents of Bottlebrush to attend the council meeting on Thursday to get a response from the eThekwini municipality ...
Independent Online
October 22, 2017
eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede's nephew lands top city job despite. ... Durban - eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede has been accused of ...
East Coast Radio
October 22, 2017
EThekwini says it is in the process of purchasing land for a new cemetery in Inanda and a crematorium in Phoenix. graveyard-cemetary.jpg.
Independent Online
October 20, 2017
Durban - As burial space is running out in South Africa, especially Durban, and the encouragement of cremation, has seen the eThekwini ...
Times LIVE
October 19, 2017
Today his book titled The Pavement Bookworm is available to residents of eThekwini as part of the One City One Book programme. The aim is ...
Southlands Sun
October 19, 2017
Residents affected by the Durban storm on Tuesday, 10 October are warned not to give money to anyone who claims they are from eThekwini ...
East Coast Radio
October 17, 2017
eThekwini has placed the number of homes affected by the massive storm in ... eThekwini's Disaster Management Unit head, Vincent Ngubane ...
Independent Online
October 16, 2017
Durban - The eThekwini Municipality held a prayer session yesterday at the Moses Mabhida Stadium for the matric class of 2017 who begin ...
Northglen News
October 10, 2017
eThekwini spokesperson, Tozi Mthethwa, has urged all residents to stay indoors until the storm passes. “Residents are also cautioned against ...
South African Broadcasting Corporation
October 10, 2017
EThekwini spokesperson, Tozi Mthethwa says winds of up to 70 kilometres per hour are being experienced and conditions are extremely ...
Independent Online
October 10, 2017
Durban - As weather conditions continue to deteriorate and reports of infrastructure destruction emerge the eThekwini Municipality has urged ...
Times LIVE
October 6, 2017
ANC-run eThekwini Municipality has slapped the Democratic Alliance with a half a million rand unpaid parking bill for the use of the old Natal ...
Independent Online
October 6, 2017
A senior manager at eThekwini Municipality has been suspended as investigations take place into allegations of major fraud and corruption in ...
News24
October 6, 2017
Durban – The eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality has no proof that the DA owes the city roughly R500 000 for additional parking used during ...
South African Broadcasting Corporation
October 2, 2017
The eThekwini Municipality 80 million-rand ultra-modern uMkhumbane Cultural and Heritage Museum in Cato Manor, won under the "built"Â ...
News24
October 2, 2017
Durban – Shack dwellers from Blinkbonnie Road in Bonela, Durban have accused the eThekwini municipality of being "brutal" and defying a ...
Independent Online
September 18, 2017
Durban - The eThekwini Municipality was hard at work restoring electricity to more than 1 000 homes that were cast in darkness following a ...