The Business of Comrades Marathon. The Mega Sporting event is reported to be generating over R350 million in revenue for the City of Durban. Proff Melville Saayman - North West University Director of research joined us to share his findings. Sihle Zikalala - MEC For Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs – KZN also came on to tell us how they manage to host such a financially successful Sporting event as the Province.