Save Newmarket Stables, Durban

LAST equestrian centre vs MANY MANY MANY soccer facilities - please eThekwini - just don't do this to our sport!

The stables have been there creating glorious memories for many years. It is not worth destroying. More harm than good will come out of the demolishion.

Be careful whose toes you step on today because they may well be connected to the horses hoof that kicks your a$$ tomorrow. Oh how the mighty will fall ... these power hungry egotistical people forget that they are public servants and that the tax payers pay their salaries. When you stop listening to the people you wil stop getting votes! Speaking to some lower income people at work over the last few weeks about this, their question is : Why none of the ANC promises for better education, housing, medical etc for ALL is evident yet the government has millions to spend on 88 chosen ones and in the process many people lose their employment. Doesn't make any sense at all and I have encouraged them to think before they vote these parasites back into power. Corrupt officials ... promises are empty, their swiss bank accounts are full ... 

We spent billions on a soccer stadium that has absolutely no use. There's many other grounds to build on. Ridiculous!!!!!

there  are already so many facilities that can serve the soccer playing community, even on professional levels! Right in Durban ! 

What about the horse lovers of that big city? There are so many who cannot afford to travel to the expensive riding facilities out of town!

This particular place and where it is situated is a live saver for many, who otherwise would end up in drugs and other nonsense. (As I am a walking testemony to that!)

Horses have something. Thats why they are used for therapy. For the physically challenged, but also for the emotionally crippled.

If this place is torn down, not just is a heritage site lost, but many people, young and older, would be robbed of something that brought life to them: their weekly (sometimes daily) trips to spend time with those magnificent animals to switch of from stress and  preassures of all kind.

We would be robbed of a place, where there is happy and safe fellowship for  our children under trustworthy adult supervision, learning lifeskills while having fun.  Since when does the government tare down well functioning , already existing and well organized   community recreational centers? Considering it costs millions of Rands to set up something like this which the government boasts about of doing for the peoples of this country to keep  crime down . It just does not make sense!!!  

Not all people recharge their batteries with playing or watching soccer!

Can you not please give those horse people also some space???

There is lots that is done for soccer and Durban can accomodate the soccer academy surely somewhere else.

But for the Durban horse folk there is nothing else.  This place was built for horses and horse lovers 100 years ago. Can you please respect that and dont push them out!

Sabine

Please eThekwini help us to ensure that equestrian sport continues to have a place in the Durban Central area.