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MBDA hails success as its management of stadium comes to an end

Despite the municipality’s push to relieve the Mandela Bay Development Agency of its Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium duties, the agency has pulled in R21m in revenue from events and sports fixtures between the start of the 2023/2024 financial…

UNHYGIENIC CONDITIONS: Kuyga residents suffer from ongoing  sewage spills

Nelson Mandela Bay metro reports case after contractor working in Kuyga intimidated

The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has reported an extortion attempt to police after contractors repairing a major sewage spill in Kuyga were allegedly targeted.

SEEING FOR HIMSELF: DA MP Ian Cameron meets narcotics dog Bean during an oversight inspection at key policing sites in Nelson Mandela Bay

Wheels come off at Nelson Mandela Bay Flying Squad

Nelson Mandela Bay’s specialised rapid-response unit is down to only one operational vehicle to respond to priority and serious crimes in progress.

NO SHOW: A Nelson Mandela Bay municipal public accounts committee meeting was postponed despite a National Treasury threat to withdraw the December grant allocation

Treasury threatens to withhold more grants

The National Treasury has warned that Nelson Mandela Bay risks losing its December grant allocation if it fails to address the historic R30bn in unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure (UIFW) — the highest of any…

SUCCESS REWARDED:  Owners of  emerging Gqeberha business Marshall Hill, which produces  treats under the brand Sweet Thing Meringues, has been named the overall winners of the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber Entrepreneurship Desk competition. From left  are Ilembe Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Tourism chief executive  Cobus Oelefse, Airports Company SA Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport manager Claudia Daniels, Bulelwa Qupe (second  place) from Ududu, Julie Coetzee (first  place) from Marshall Hill, Siyamthanda Mahabeni (third  place) from Siya Meals, Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber chief executive Denise van Huyssteen and  Prof Amoah Felix from NMU

Gqeberha confectionery business wins R50,000 in chamber competition

Gqeberha business Sweet Thing Meringues, owned by Julie Coetzee and Briony Sparg, won the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber Entrepreneurship Desk competition, earning R50,000.

BRUTALLY FRANK: Former ANC president Thabo Mbeki, left, was a keynote speaker at the ANC Veterans League's political school held at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium on Sunday. Pictured with him is the party's Eastern Cape secretary, Lulama Ngcukaitobi

Faction wars threaten ANC’s grip in Nelson Mandela Bay

Factionalism within the ANC threatens its control in Nelson Mandela Bay, as internal conflicts over positions and access to resources weaken party structures in the Eastern Cape.

NEARLY THERE: The ANC’s regional office, Florence Matomela House, in Govan Mbeki Avenue, Gqeberha. Just one of the two remaining branch disputes needs to be resolved for the region to meet the qualifying threshold of 70% to hold its conference

Nelson Mandela Bay ANC set on holding conference in November

The ANC in Nelson Mandela Bay is determined to hold its regional elective conference before the end of November.

DOP national spokesperson Neville Higgins is set to join the Nelson Mandela Bay council

Corruption-accused Higgins takes metro’s political sports leadership role

Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Neville Higgins, facing corruption charges, has been appointed to lead the city's sport, recreation, arts, and culture portfolio, replacing Sinebhongo Kwatsha.

Community members protest outside the New Brighton magistrate's court on Tuesday where murder accused businessman Theo Gora was applying for bail

Teen may have survived if taken to hospital instead of being dumped, court told

If murder accused businessman Theo Gora had “done what any ordinary citizen would have done” and rushed the teenager he allegedly struck with his car to the hospital, the young man’s life might have been saved.

Workers assemble a section of prefabricated walling on Monday at the metro’s supply chain management sub-directorate premises on the corner of Harrower Road and Buxton Avenue, where the cable yard is situated

Nelson Mandela Bay metro set to allocate R2.4m to complete fencing of cable yard

Plagued by theft and vandalism, the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality plans to allocate R2.4m this financial year to complete the fencing of the city’s cable yard — a project launched last year to address serious safety risks at the facility.

At the ministerial signing of co-operation agreement. on Friday were, from left, Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Gary van Niekerk, Eastern Cape premier Oscar  Mabuyane and police minister Senzo Mchunu

Extortion hotline yields positive results in the Bay

Police in the Eastern Cape have made inroads in their efforts to quell rampant extortion and kidnappings since the launch of the provincial hotline in August.

MK Party Eastern Cape leader Sive Feni was sworn in as an MPL on Friday

PA, MK want provincial government to prioritise jobs for youth

The new entrants in the Bhisho legislature, the PA and MK want to see the provincial government prioritise projects which generate job opportunities for the youth.

ANC leaders arrive at the Isaac Wolfson Stadium for the party's 2019 manifest review with from left, human settlements minister Mamoloko Kubayi, ANC treasurer-general Gwen Ramokgopa, Nelson Mandela Bay regional chair Babalwa Lobishe and ANC Eastern Cape secretary Lulama Ngcukaitobi

ANC changed lives of millions over past 29 years — Ramakgopa

The ANC has patted itself on the back for what it says was a good record of delivery and for changing the lives of millions of South Africans over the past 29 years.

ANC provincial treasurer Zolile Williams speaking at the part's fundraising gala dinner at the Boardwalk Convention Centre on Friday evening

ANC wants to reclaim governance control of Nelson Mandela Bay

If the ANC in Nelson Mandela Bay wants to reclaim complete control of the municipality, it must close the widening gap between its branch structures and leaders of the party.

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People’s hero honoured at 13th Steve Biko public lecture

Steve Biko, the visionary founder of the Black Consciousness Movement, is celebrated as a towering figure who seamlessly blended theory, practice, empathy, and an indomitable revolutionary spirit.