Civil society has a role to play in resuscitating local government
Without a serious reboot, the prospects of delivering the urgently needed development that citizens are calling for remains unlikely
The city manager of the eThekwini metro, Sipho Nzuza, was arrested on fraud charges on March 10. His case follows the arrest in 2019 of the city’s then mayor, Zandile Gumede, and a number of other city officials, councillors and local business owners. All are implicated in an allegedly fraudulent Durban solid waste tender from 2018.
Though none of those charged has yet been found guilty, news of these investigations has confirmed that eThekwini, SA’s third-largest city by population, has now joined an alarming list of metros where substantial abuses of resources and governance failures are undermining urban development agendas...
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