eThekwini Mayor Allegedly Enjoyed Holidays in Cape Town and Left the Contaminated Beaches at Home
Zwakele Mncwango
ActionSA KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Chairperson
eThekwini Mayor, Cllr Mxolisi Kaunda, allegedly enjoyed his last festive season holidays at Cape Town beaches, while allowing holiday makers to swim in E.coli infested beaches in eThekwini.
Mayor Kaunda must explain to eThekwini residents and businesses why he chose to enjoy the Cape Town coastline instead of dedicating his time and energy to dealing with the myriad problems on his own coastline that are directly attributable to his administrations dereliction of its duty to repair the City’s infrastructure that was damaged 9 months ago.
In an attempt to not scare the public into staying away from eThekwini during the last festive season, Kaunda openly mislead the public into believing that E.coli levels were at an acceptable rate in Durban beaches, making them ‘safe’ for public use, while he cooled off in Cape Town.
Not only is this shocking, but it is also very telling and creates the impression that the eThekwini beaches remain contaminated by untreated effluent and are indeed not safe for beachgoers if the City’s own Mayor chose to flee this coastline to enjoy another.
This is hypocrisy at its finest. Mayor Kaunda risked the health and wellbeing of the public, in an attempt to not lose large amounts of capital flowing into the city during the festive season, while maintaining the facade that he cared for people’s health.
ActionSA will not stop fighting for the people of eThekwini, while we await our trial date on the 27 February against the City of eThekwini and other Government entities.
eThekwini Mayor Allegedly Enjoyed Holidays in Cape Town and Left the Contaminated Beaches at Home
eThekwini Mayor, Cllr Mxolisi Kaunda, allegedly enjoyed his last festive season holidays at Cape Town beaches, while allowing holiday makers to swim in E.coli infested beaches in eThekwini.
Mayor Kaunda must explain to eThekwini residents and businesses why he chose to enjoy the Cape Town coastline instead of dedicating his time and energy to dealing with the myriad problems on his own coastline that are directly attributable to his administrations dereliction of its duty to repair the City’s infrastructure that was damaged 9 months ago.
In an attempt to not scare the public into staying away from eThekwini during the last festive season, Kaunda openly mislead the public into believing that E.coli levels were at an acceptable rate in Durban beaches, making them ‘safe’ for public use, while he cooled off in Cape Town.
Not only is this shocking, but it is also very telling and creates the impression that the eThekwini beaches remain contaminated by untreated effluent and are indeed not safe for beachgoers if the City’s own Mayor chose to flee this coastline to enjoy another.
This is hypocrisy at its finest. Mayor Kaunda risked the health and wellbeing of the public, in an attempt to not lose large amounts of capital flowing into the city during the festive season, while maintaining the facade that he cared for people’s health.
ActionSA will not stop fighting for the people of eThekwini, while we await our trial date on the 27 February against the City of eThekwini and other Government entities.