IT IS with great trepidation that I pen this column on our beloved eThekwini Municipality.
The Durban brand was indeed a powerful one, being recognised as the best performing metropolitan council in South Africa. It received international accolades as one of only two debt-free cities in the world.
With an AA credit rating, banks and other international agencies were loathe not to lend money to the city. Having R8 billion in reserves,