State waves Blue Flag at Durban

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Durban will be forced to rejoin the internationally approved Blue Flag grading system for beaches.

The system sets standards for water quality, ablution facilities, safety and security and other facilities at beaches.

Economic Development and Tourism MEC Mike Mabuyakhulu announced yesterday that all KwaZulu-Natal municipalities with beaches would be compelled to adhere to the system.

He said that a fully fledged policy would be in place by the end of the year and a spokesman indicated that beaches were expected to be Blue Flag-compliant by March 31 next year.
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Durban pulled out of the programme in 2008, with municipal manager Michael Sutcliffe citing research suggesting that certain bacteria, concentrations of which were used to determine whether Blue Flag status was awarded, were likely to survive longer in the warmer Indian Ocean temperatures off the city than in the cooler waters off Cape Town. He later implemented a parallel system of flags for eThekwini beaches.

The national co-ordinator of the Blue Flag programme, Alison Kelly, welcomed the intervention by Mabuyakhulu.

"As participation in the Blue Flag programme grows among municipalities in the Eastern and Western Cape, whatever assistance we can get to advance Blue Flag in KZN will be appreciated," she said.

Kelly said the failure to comply with water quality standards and the poor management of beaches were two reasons for the withdrawal of Blue Flag status from some Durban beaches in 2008.

Responding to Sutcliffe's arguments, she said the issue of using indicator bacteria to determine health risk in warmer waters was being debated globally.
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Sutcliff is a 4 letter word in Durban. Wish someone would fire the ****head already.
 
Come on, give the man a break, he is doing a stirling job: The roads are in fantastic condition with no potholes at all, the M13 no longer has heavy articulated vehicles on it flipping over and causing choas and pandamonium with traffic almost every day, all the roads have nice new shiny poles and street name boards with nice new names that hardly anyone can pronounce and which absolutely not one foreign world cup tourist will be able to find because not one GPS system has any of these new shiny names yet. The Durban CBD is the cleanest and most crime free in the country, which is a good thing because for the most part one has to travel through it to get to the majority of the non-blue flag status beaches which must now have blue flag status, he is a true "new South African'' where this is concerned because colour (of the flag) shouldn't and obviously in this case doesn't matter. The Metro police are so proactive in fighting crime that i see them pulling over all the big expensive cars all day at impromptu raodblocks in areas that REALLY dont need them while the trucks and taxis have freedom of the city. He is doing a fantastic job............at failing this beautiful city!
 
garyb01 said:
Come on, give the man a break, he is doing a stirling job: The roads are in fantastic condition with no potholes at all, the M13 no longer has heavy articulated vehicles on it flipping over and causing choas and pandamonium with traffic almost every day, all the roads have nice new shiny poles and street name boards with nice new names that hardly anyone can pronounce and which absolutely not one foreign world cup tourist will be able to find because not one GPS system has any of these new shiny names yet. The Durban CBD is the cleanest and most crime free in the country, which is a good thing because for the most part one has to travel through it to get to the majority of the non-blue flag status beaches which must now have blue flag status, he is a true "new South African'' where this is concerned because colour (of the flag) shouldn't and obviously in this case doesn't matter. The Metro police are so proactive in fighting crime that i see them pulling over all the big expensive cars all day at impromptu raodblocks in areas that REALLY dont need them while the trucks and taxis have freedom of the city. He is doing a fantastic job............at failing this beautiful city!
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Was here that I realised you were talking out of your ass :D

Edit: Drove through CBD just today. Place looks like a municipal dump.
 
freak. i haven't been to durban in about a year.
my wife and i had big fights while we got lost with the gps and ended up cursing the software.
then you actually do try reading the street signs and some d00s has spraypainted all the new ones out.
oh well. moses mabida looked nice.
other than the fact that i nearly died in the skycar, it was quite impressive.
 
I was in DBN over the Easter weekend, I took time out to go to the beachfront. At this point it might look more like a construction site than a beachfront but I think the DBN peeps will be glad when all of that is completed. From UShaka Marine to the Umngeni River mouth, it's going to be awesome.
I want to move back there.
 
davemc said:
So why the freck does that idiot still have his job?
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Honestly? In my humble opinion its because standards in this country have dropped so low that when compared to other cities in the country, he IS actually doing a good job in comparison to other city managers, which in its own is reason enough for our collective heads to hang in shame. That and the fact that every now and then his ANC puppet-masters are thrown a bone to appease them with a totally unnecessary name change to prove that the Metro is still being managed according to policy.
 
And political policy in this country and city, will always out-weigh and over rule good common sense and reasoning and simply doing the right thing to the benefit of the Metro and its residents.
 
JungleBoy said:
I was in DBN over the Easter weekend, I took time out to go to the beachfront. At this point it might look more like a construction site than a beachfront but I think the DBN peeps will be glad when all of that is completed. From UShaka Marine to the Umngeni River mouth, it's going to be awesome.
I want to move back there.
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Agreed, once completed it will be and you are welcome back any time. The point is though that this entire beautification project is as a direct result of the world cup and should in fact never have been necessary if the city was not allowed to deteriorate the way it has over the last 10 or more years due to the mismanagement that has been the order of the day.
 
garyb01 said:
Agreed, once completed it will be and you are welcome back any time. The point is though that this entire beautification project is as a direct result of the world cup and should in fact never have been necessary if the city was not allowed to deteriorate the way it has over the last 10 or more years due to the mismanagement that has been the order of the day.
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QFT
 
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