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Obed Thembinkosi Mlaba, born in 1943 is the current High Commissioner of South Africa to the United Kingdom, the sixth since 1994. He is a former mayor of Durban, one of the biggest and commercially active cities of South Africa.

He was born in 1943 in Ntambamhlope near Estcourt in KwaZulu-Natal. He holds an MBA in Strategic Marketing Management from the International Management Centre (United Kingdom).^{[citation needed]} He gained extensive experience in human resources and business development while working for the sugar firm Huletts^{[citation needed]}.

He entered local government in 1994 as an ANC member and was appointed Chair of the Executive Committee of the Durban Metropolitan Council 1995.^{[citation needed]}

Mlaba was elected Metropolitan Mayor (ANC) in July 1996. He completed in total two and half terms of office ( 3 of 5 years as the Durban Unicity Mayor and two as the eThekwini Mayor) and retired following the Local Government election of May 2011.

Criticism

In late 2005 the New York Times reported that shack dwellers in the Foreman Road shanty town had burnt an effigy of Mlaba after they had been banned from staging a march on the mayor to protest against his housing policy.^[1] A few days after the march Mlaba called a press conference at which he announced that a large amount of Huletts (now trading as Moreland) land would soon be made available for a R10 billion housing project for shack dwellers.^[2] Moreland denied that there was such a project and later went on to announce a commercial project on the land.

Corruption Investigation

Mlaba is currently under investigation for corruption.^[3]

References

^ Shantytown Dwellers in South Africa Protest Sluggish Pace of Change, New York Times
^ Mercury article
^ Mayor and city boss to be probed, Nirvashni Nair, City Press, March 2011

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[1] Shantytown Dwellers in South Africa Protest Sluggish Pace of Change, New York Times

[2] Mercury article

[3] Mayor and city boss to be probed, Nirvashni Nair, City Press, March 2011

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	'''Obed Thembinkosi Mlaba''', born in 1943 is the current High Commissioner of South Africa in the United Kingdom, the sixth since 1994. He is a former mayor of Durban, one of the biggest and commercially active cities of South Africa.		'''Obed Thembinkosi Mlaba''', born in 1943 is the current High Commissioner of South Africa to the United Kingdom, the sixth since 1994. He is a former mayor of Durban, one of the biggest and commercially active cities of South Africa.

	He was born in 1943 in Ntambamhlope near [[Estcourt]] in [[KwaZulu-Natal]]. He holds an MBA in Strategic Marketing Management from the International Management Centre (United Kingdom).{{Citation needed\|date=September 2008}} He gained extensive experience in human resources and business development while working for the sugar firm [[Huletts]]{{Citation needed\|date=September 2008}}.		He was born in 1943 in Ntambamhlope near [[Estcourt]] in [[KwaZulu-Natal]]. He holds an MBA in Strategic Marketing Management from the International Management Centre (United Kingdom).{{Citation needed\|date=September 2008}} He gained extensive experience in human resources and business development while working for the sugar firm [[Huletts]]{{Citation needed\|date=September 2008}}.