EDITOR – In the Sun of 7 July, ward 66 Cllr Prinsloo is quoted as claiming “years of neglect are being reversed all over the Bluff,” thereby inferring that the previous councillor was responsible for that neglect.
As the previous ward councillor, I take exception to Prinsloo’s attitude.
The beach upgrade to which he refers stalled after the death in January 2016 of the key official driving the project. All my appeals to Shunnon Tulsiram, the head of ECOD, to get the upgrade on the capital budget were ignored.
Unless an item is placed on the capital budget, a project like the beach upgrade which would cost at least R50-million, based on what the Umgababa upgrade cost (R47million), will not happen.
All road rehabilitation is programmed. Re-surfacing is dependent on where a road is in terms of its life on the schedule. Occasionally there are exceptions which may be the case in Foreshore Drive, where excess plant from another job was available.
After one year in council, Prinsloo should have found out that neglect is pretty much how everything runs in eThekwini. As I stated in the review of my terms as ward 66 councillor, the increasingly dysfunctional state of Metro departments means the addressing of issues is either pathetically slow or just does not happen – regardless of a councillor’s persistence.
DUNCAN DU BOIS
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