eThekwini mayor applauds city’s 5-year achievements

eThekwini Mayor, councillor Mxolisi Kaunda applauded the work done in the City in the last five years.

Kaunda highlighted this point when he delivered the final council report for his term of office.

He noted that, in the past five years, the municipality has received unqualified audit opinion and significantly reduced irregular expenditure by 54%. This point, Kaunda said, reflected that the eThekwini Municipality is now counted among the best metros in the country for governance and financial management.

The mayor reported that one of the notable achievements during his leadership, as per the Municipality’s Public Accounts Committee, was the strengthening of consequence management within the municipality.

“The service delivery record, as per the report, highlighted that, since 2016, of 1 159 272 households in eThekwini, 960 504 have clean drinking water, 853 239 residents have access to sanitation services,” he said.

According to Kaunda, about 1 237km of access roads have been rehabilitated since 2016 and 94km of access roads in rural and township areas were upgraded from gravel to surface road.

“In the last five years, the City was able to attract R14b of investment through catalytic projects. In the same period, large scale private sector investment, to the value of R217 billion, will create 200 000 jobs in the next five years, was unlocked,” said Kaunda.