Top cop talks crime with business leaders

LUNGANI ZUNGU

THE issues of homelessness in eThekwini, the spike in truck hijackings, and the doings of brazen construction mafias, were thrust into the spotlight during a high-level meeting between provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-general Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi and some prominent KwaZulu-Natal business leaders. The rise of the kidnapping of business people in return for hefty ransoms was also cited as a thorny issue by the business folk who gathered at a venue on Kikembe Drive, uMhlanga, yesterday. The deterioration of the Albert Park in the Durban CBD, a stone’s throw from Durban harbour, being hijacked by whoonga addicts, remained another major concern for Mkhwanazi. Said Mkhwanazi: “Albert Park is no longer the Albert Park we knew. Even near the market (Warwick Avenue), people find spaces underneath bridges and sleep. That seems to be…

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