Yes, the weather is beautiful indeed.
I hear what you say about traveling through the city...especially if you go down via Victoria Embankment...that end of the city is very dodgy. But we sometimes go around the top end and come down the Marine Parade from the North Beach side. You can access the Waterfront from there.
As you say, maybe one day when you feel up to it...but I have to say, once at the Waterfront, it's a nice area and the canals are beautiful.
Will have to consider a different route perhaps, used to love going through Durban in earlier years.
Yes...Durban is not the same anymore... We often talk about the same things. A while back I found a photo of Durban's main beach on the internet that was taken somewhere in the mid-sixties...it was so clean, neat, and well kept...nothing like today!