Durban – The eThekwini Municipality’s controversial plan to evict Newmarket Stables tenants is going to be costly for its metro police who have to find R30 million to relocate the equestrian unit.

The police unit will have to ask for funding from the city to

move the unit from the Newmarket Stables to Westville, and there are concerns that this will have an impact on the funding for service provision projects.

The city has issued eviction notices to the stables and other tenants on the property, but they have refused to move out. The tenants are to be moved to make way for a R300 million soccer academy to be built as part of a world-class sporting precinct in the Kings Park area.

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