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Lifetime Bluff resident serving his third term in office as representative
of the area. Member of the Democratic Alliance.
This weeks Councillor comments
Duncan Du Bois
You can contact Councillor D Du Bois by e-mail @ dubois@axxess.co.za
Phone:467-0343 or mobile:083 291-4913
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ISSUES IN WARD 66  FOR THE
ABM IN THE SOUTH DURBAN
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DECEMBER'08
READ ALL ABOUT THE RATES ISSUE
NEW STREET NAME SIGNS VANDALISED

Within 24 hours of the news street name signs
going up in Gray Park and Bideford roads on the
Bluff, they were vandalised with spray paint.

Bluff ward councillor said that while he could not
condone acts of vandalism, he was not surprised
at what had happened. ' Street renaming has had
the same reception in Durban North and on the
Berea.
This is what happens when changes are forced
undemocratically on people. In none of the streets
whose new names have been vandalised was
there a single petition of support for name
changes.
And in none of those streets was anyone
consulted about whether they wanted a name
change in the first place, let alone what new
names should be put forward,' he said.

' The whole process was deeply flawed in the first
place. In the case of Gray Park Rd, I personally
handed in 42 individual objections to the proposed
name change. It is, therefore, outrageous that  new
names have been unilaterally imposed on
residents. One way to fight back against this
travesty is for individual homeowners to have
plaques affixed to their gates or boundary walls
which state their addresses using the original
street name,' said Du Bois.

In the meanwhile, the Democratic Alliance has
succeeded in getting its case opposing the street
renaming fiasco placed on the court roll. The case
is expected to be heard in February or March. It
should also be noted that none of the name
changes has yet been gazetted.
Hello Krish

Please forward the following list of projects for Ward
66 for 2009 to the appropriate official or officials:

1]    Pedestrian bridge for schools at Blamey / South
Coast Rd intersection.

2]    The application of SR400 Town Planning
regulations in Clairwood.

3]    A robot at the intersection of Tara and Bideford
roads.

4]    A  robot at the intersection of Grays Inn and
Brighton roads.

5]    Speed humps in the vicinity of schools on
Sarnia, Bluff and Tara Roads.

6]    The re-surfacing of Marine Drive between Anstey
Rd and Beach Rd.

7]    The removal of squatters from Clairwood and
those behind the Municipal
     dump site in Tara Rd, Bluff,  and the allocation of
housing to them.

8]    Proactive replacement and maintenance of
infrastructure - signage, drains,
     bollards, crash railings, road surfaces, street
lighting.

9]    Proactive maintenance of verges, sidewalks;
removal of weeds and the like
     which grow in gutters. Street sweeping -
especially in Edwin Swales VC Dve.

10]    Planting of indigenous trees, preferably flat
crowns, as widely and as numerously
      as possible.

Thank you.
DA TO BOYCOTT R55,000 COUNCIL LUNCH

The Democratic Alliance Caucus in Ethekwini
Municipality as decided, as a matter of principle, to
boycott
the end-of-year councillors' lunch because of the
excessive cost involved.

' At a time of great economic hardship, it is simply
unconscionable to spend R55, 000 of ratepayers
money
on a meal for 200 councillors. That works out at
R275 per head,' says Bluff ward councillor Duncan
Du Bois.
' Whilst we have no objection to a modest spread to
mark the end of the year and to acknowledge the
Festive Season, the extravagance of the ANC-led
Council in handling ratepayers' money is
outrageous,' he
said.

The DA believes that the money should be donated
to the victims of the Molweni storm disaster and
has asked that
the expenditure on the lunch that would have been
made on its 34 councillors - some R9,350 - be
given to the
Molweni community instead.

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   More robots expected in Bluff area

Bluff ward councillor Duncan Du Bois hopes the
there will be more robots at intersections on the
Bluff in the new year.
'It is pleasing to see that at last traffic signals have
been installed at the intersection of Tara and Grays
Inn Roads.
That intersection has been on my list for a long time
along with two others. They are Bideford and Tara
and Brighton and Grays Inn Road,' he said.

' Those two intersections have been submitted
along with several others as part of my annual ward
councillor's list of projects which are required for
the compiling of the budget,' he noted.

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Cllr Snyman to do Bluff duty

During his absence due to overseas travel in
December, Councillor Duncan Du Bois asks that
any serious matters relating to his ward be referred
to Councillor Aubrey Snyman. He can be contacted
on 031 468-9584 or on 082 700-7081.
His fax number is 031 468-4511.