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Durban’s Hilton Hotel is scheduled to reopen in March after temporarily closing down almost three years ago.
The 5-star Durban Hilton Hotel is expected to reopen its doors within the next two months as the eThekwini municipality threatened to take it over.
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EXPROPRIATION CLAUSE
According to TimesLive, Durban city manager Musa Mbhele told eThekwini executive committee members that there was a clause in the hotel’s agreement with Durban, allowing the city to expropriate the hotel if it was not performing as expected.
“They’ve made a commitment because we were threatening to take over. The agreement was that if that thing doesn’t perform we would expropriate it.” Mbhele said, per TimesLive.
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The city is reportedly considering activating the expropriation clause if the Hilton Hotel does not reopen.
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