eThekwini removes vagrants and drug camps near freeway

THE eThekwini Municipality has removed drug addicts and vagrants from under the M4 freeway, Che Guevara Road.

- ZAINUL DAWOOD

DRUG addicts and vagrants have been removed from under the M4 freeway, Che Guevara Road. | eThekwini Municipality VAGRANTS and drug addicts had occupied the pavement and traffic lanes, creating a hazardous intersection for motorists in the lower Umbilo area. | eThekwini Municipality TENTS and illegal structures were cleared from Che Guevara Road, under the M4 southern freeway. | eThekwini Municipality

(eThekwini Municipality)

For more than a decade, vagrants and drug addicts have played a cat-and-mouse game with municipality officials at the southern entrance to the Durban CBD, commonly referred to as the Albert Park area.

The municipality had been moving vagrants away from this zone, only for them to reoccupy another plot of land within the zone.

For two months, they had occupied the pavement and traffic lanes of Che Guevara Road, making it an unsightly and dangerous intersection for motorists and businesses in the lower Umbilo area.

On Friday, the municipality focused on street sweeping, litter picking, removal of illegal dumping, and dismantling of the unlawful structures.