Mxolisi Kaunda was appointed mayor of Durban by the governing party last month, after it recalled its contingents to the Durban and Pietermaritzburg municipalities over poor performance and political infighting in both cities.
Word around city hall has it that the cameras went down in 2016 — at about the time the R208-million waste disposal tender, over which It’s not clear whether the cameras were switched back on by former deputy mayor Fawzia Peer, during her stint as interim mayor when Gumede was suspended because of her arrest, or by her successor, Mxolisi Kaunda.
Acknowledged or not, the reconnection of the cameras not only brought city hall security back into the 21st century but also made it safer for staff and the new mayoral team. “We need to guarantee them stability and policy certainty, that we know what we are doing as government,’’ Kaunda said.The new deputy mayor, former finance MEC Belinda Scott, is heading the committee.
Kaunda said his other immediate objective was to sort out the city’s auditing woes. Previously teams from the auditor general’s office had to abandon attempts to audit departmental books because they had received death threats.
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