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EThekwini councillor demands urgent action as homelessness report delayed

November 27, 2025

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The Mercury

ETHEKWINI councillor Andre Beetge has raised concerns about the impact drug addicts and homeless people near Albert Park would have on tourism once visitors arrive in Durban for the December holidays.

- ZAINUL DAWOOD

Beetge also expressed his frustration during an eThekwini Executive meeting this week, when a report from the municipality's safer cities department was not presented.

Beetge claimed that the city was paying lip service to the matter.

The report was intended to detail a plan to assist the homeless who occupy verges and part of the road near Albert Park/Umbilo and the M4 Southern freeway, entering the Durban CBD.

The group had been recently removed by the Durban metro police from a vacant land they occupied nearby and from alongside the train lines on Che Guevara Road, formerly known as Moore Road. In May 2025, the municipality cleared vagrants and drug addicts from Albert Park and has since upgraded it for public use.

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