A last-minute meeting to save Durban's Newmarket stables will be held next week, even though city officials seem determined to demolish them. About 50 protesters wearing T-shirts and placards emblazoned "Save Our Stables" packed the public gallery of the Tongaat Town Hall yesterday hoping to hear eThekwini councillors debate the stables' fate, but Speaker Logie Naidoo ruled that a notice-of-motion tabling the issue had been added to the agenda too late.This prompted a walkout by the protesters, who were assailed by taunts from some councillors as they left.eThekwini city manager Sibusiso Sithole issued signed eviction notices to tenants at the stables complex last week, ordering that they be out by August 30.The tenants argue that more than 100 jobs will be lost. About 50 horses, including those ridden by the city's beachfront patrols, are housed at the stables.According to reports, the municipality intends demolishing the stables, which are in the heart of the city's sports precinct, close to the Kings Park and Moses Mabhida stadiums, to make way for a soccer academy.DA councillor Martin Meyer told the protesters that he had made an "urgent intervention" and had scheduled a meeting with city manager Sithole on Monday."This matter is far from over. You will fight from your side; I will keep fighting from my side," said Meyer.Nadine Parker, head coach at Newmarket Stables Equestrian Club, said tenants were "horrified" when Naidoo ruled that their matter was not urgent."How can it not be urgent? People are about to lose their jobs and their livelihoods. Horses will have to be put down."We have until the end of August to vacate, so I don't understand how our matter is not urgent," she said."Our lives are in limbo. The tenants don't know whether to move or wait until the fight is over. It is a terrible space to be in," Parker said. "The tenants want answers."..