MILLION RAND MIKE gets up noses - even more so since it emerged in Parliament that at R1,08m/year he's SA's highest paid city manager.
[Jan2007]
Michael Sutcliffe has set eThekwini (Durban) on a new course since he became city manager in July 2002.
[Operation downhill? Obstinate course? Race course?]
Sutcliffe picks up flak for sticking to his guns. He won't clear hawkers off the streets, arguing it's inconsistent with job creation.
[But clears them and every street child and every vagrant when any international conference is on in town - where do they go - nobody knows]
A local, born and schooled in Toti - you don't get more boy in da hood than that
[?]- Sutcliffe escaped academia when elected to the province in 1994. An ANC faithful, he's achieved much in provincial and local government since then and has fostered a new style of "smart city management".
[Smart? - man are we in trouble]
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