Moved by boredom at a temporary shelter established during the lockdown, a group of homeless men sought donations for seeds and tools to establish the planting project in June.
The current state of disaster ends on Thursday and it was not yet clear if it would be extended.
Sandile Ngcobo was suspended earlier this year after fresh charges emerged in the Ethekwini waste collection scandal.
Dumisani Zondi (42) was stabbed to death three weeks ago after calling on a group of people to stop drinking at a sports ground in Montclair.
Gumede and 16 others face corruption charges linked to tender fraud amounting to over R400 million. She appeared in the Durban Commercial Crimes Court on Thursday.
Former eThekwini Mayor Zandile Gumede previously accused the State of treating her unfairly by arresting her before completing its investigations.
Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda went on a walkabout in the Umhlanga precinct on Tuesday to assess the state of preparedness for the sector to operate under relaxed COVID-19 regulations.
The skills development programme forms part of interventions that the local government has been able to achieve as a result of the lockdown.
Over 1,000 people became homeless in recent weeks after several unrelated blazes.
The National Funeral Practitioners Association of South Africa said the city needed 15,000 more gravesites by September amid the growing number of COVID-19 cases and deaths.
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala had indicated that there was a consideration to keep the metro under the highest level of restrictions given the high infections rates of coronavirus.
While City officials said they are doing all they can to fulfill their promises, KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala said this is proving difficult.
The eThekwini Metro Taxi Council announced that it would be suspending all its operations during the nationwide lockdown.
Sipho Nzuza is among officials who allegedly colluded with politicians and service providers to unlawfully issue waste collection tenders worth over R200 million.
On Friday, the remains of the nine were returned to their families, 59 years after they were sentenced to death by the apartheid regime.
Local small businesses in towns such as uMgababa, south of Durban, argue that most of the profits go to big businesses in the inner city as they benefit from urban infrastructure projects.
They've accused Sanral of failing to maintain the N2 saying thousands of motorists were at risk because a large sink-hole was beginning to form.
eThekwini Metro Police said that they would keep a close eye on the city’s beaches following a series of violent incidents over the long weekend.
