Report on Albert Park vagrants still outstanding

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 on Tuesday, when a report from the municipality's Safer Cities" initiative 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, the municipality cleared vagrants and drug addicts from Albert Park and has since transformed it for public use.