The Green Seat Newsletter 2022
Newsletter March 2022
* Mayor Kaunda's undemocratic behaviour will no longer be tolerated in eThekwini
* Two foreigners murdered
* eThekwini again on the dry land warning.
PUBLIC NOTICE: INTERRUPTION OF WATER SUPPLY IN SEVERAL AREAS OF ETHEKWINI
Residents are informed of the interruption of water supply in most areas of the north, central south, and inner west regions. The interruption is due to a valve failure in the vicinity of the Durban Heights Treatment Works of uMgeni Water.
Due to the valve failure, the uMgeni Water Main Reservoir has been isolated to undertake repairs. These repairs are currently underway. However, this will affect supply of water in several areas in eThekwini. The duration of the repairs is 12 hours and is expected to be completed at 12am, on 30 March 2022.
There will be no incoming flow into eThekwini Municipality’s storage reservoirs and as a result, there will be water outages from midnight, 30 March until midnight, 31 March.
The following areas will experience water shortages during this process:
NORTHERN AQUEDUCT SUPPLIED AREAS
Aloes; Avoca; Phoenix; Mount Moriah; Kwa Mashu; Ntuzuma; Inanda; Mzinyathi; Etafuleni; Newlands; Effingham; Mountview; Trenance; Oaklands; Buffelsdraai; Parkgate; Amouti; Amaoti; La Lucia; Gateway; Glenashely; Beachway; uMhlanga; Durban North; Sea Cow Lake; Springfield, and Mt Edgecombe.
SOUTHERN AQUEDUCT SUPPLIED AREAS
Westville; Northdene; Queensburgh; Malvern; Chatsworth; Shallcross; Savanah Park; parts of Nagina; Kwasanti; Mawelewele; Welbedatch East; Welbedatch West; Luganda; Inteke; Klaarwater; Montford; Risecliffe; Moorton; Crossmoor; Woodhurst; Arena Park; uMlazi; Nsimbini; Folweni and Golokodo.
Water tankers will be on standby to respond to affected areas.
The Municipality apologises for the inconvenience caused and requests residents to use water sparingly.
For more information regarding water supply, members of the public can contact the call centre on 080 131 3013, the toll-free number on 080 311 1111 or use the eThekwini Water and Sanitation WhatsApp number on 073 1483 477.
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* 🇮🇱- Two foreign workers, Sasha and Dima from Ukraine were murdered tonight 29 March, in the terrorist attack in Bnei Brak.
by Nicole Graham.
Date: 29 March 2022
Release: Immediate
The Democratic Alliance in eThekwini has set out demands to Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda following Tuesday's Executive Committee meeting. The meeting collapsed after Kaunda tried to manipulate a majority vote of the Executive Committee that apparently did not suit his political agenda.
On Tuesday, in a report from the Finance, Security and Emergency Services Committee, the municipality attempted to increase the fees for launching an objection to the value of a residential home on the Municipal Valuation Roll by 200%. This would mean that ordinary residents would have to pay R500 to launch an objection in the next financial year. The current fee is R250.
The valuation roll has seen many property owners subjected to ridiculous increases in their property values and a huge amount of people attempting to object to their increases. This is not something that the municipality should profit off. It should be a fair, meaningful and reasonable administrative process.
Members from the EFF and IFP and DA objected to this increase, meaning that five members of the opposition had voted against it. One member of the ANC was sick and had submitted leave, meaning that the ANC's coalition only had four councillors online to pass this ridiculous increase.
The Mayor began to tally the vote and immediately counted himself twice. This was objected to, as a casting vote by the Chair can only be made in the instance of a tie. The Mayor quickly realised that the ANC had lost the vote. He turned off his camera and microphone and the meeting stalled for about five minutes, with ANC colleagues claiming that he had "lost connection". Bizarrely, Kaunda even put on his microphone and claimed that he had lost connection himself.
Both the Acting Municipal Manager and the Deputy Mayor did not intervene, which is the usual process if the Mayor is absent. The opposition made it clear that the meeting was obviously being delayed to allow time to connect Councillor Sokhabase, the ANC member who was ill.
Councillor Sokhabase and the Mayor both then appeared and Councillor Sokhabase attempted to portray that she had been present for the entire meeting and was part of the vote.
Requests to the Mayor to declare the vote as it happened, to involve the Legal Services Unit and to get a technical report on the progress of the Microsoft Teams meeting were ignored.
The members of the opposition then left the meeting, unwilling and unable to proceed in these circumstances.
Kaunda must now do the right thing: he must declare the valid result of the vote on the ridiculous valuation roll tariff, make the recording available to the public and he must publicly apologise for his deceitful behaviour.
Since November last year, the ANC in eThekwini have repeatedly indulged in aggressive, undemocratic and thuggish behaviour. It is bizarre but no longer surprising that they would attempt something so plainly rigged. The matter at hand is also hugely important: the ANC is so insistent on charging higher fees for valuation roll objections because they want to ensure that they can rake in as much rates income as possible.
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