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Provision for the homeless, which included marquees, showers, toilets, blankets, security, health units, temporary staff, nurses and thermo scanners cost ratepayers R66 856 286. Tankering of water including static tanks cost R19.6m while R2.5m was spent on chemical toilets and R1 097 000 spent on “community and awareness campaigns”.Thabani Mthethwa, a DA member of the executive committee, the main opposition in the eThekwini Municipality, called on the City to do an internal audit of the Covid-19 expenditure as the City was charged above the benchmarked rate set by the national treasury for many of the items purchased during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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