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Siyamtanda Capa is a senior reporter at The herald and Weekend Post
It is doubtful that the council in the Dr Beyers Naudé local municipality will finish its term due to political instability — forcing an election rerun.
An agreement that will see a coalition made up of 56 seats in the Nelson Mandela Bay council is close to being signed after a deal was struck with the DA and six smaller parties.
About 60 years after anti-apartheid activist James Booi disappeared and was later buried as a pauper at the Zamdela Cemetery in the Free State, he will finally be buried in his home city of Gqeberha.
The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality’s economic development, tourism and agriculture department wants to regulate informal traders in Korsten through the establishment of an informal traders’ association.
The ANC in Nelson Mandela Bay has retained control of Ward 43.
The appointment of Nelson Mandela Bay City manager Dr Noxolo Nqwazi during a chaotic council meeting in March was the culmination of fraudulent activity with speaker Gary van Niekerk misrepresenting the vote count.
Two weeks — that is how long the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality’s fleet department needs to repair a flat tyre on a small car.
An “unholy alliance” or a mere coincidence of parties choosing to put service delivery in Nelson Mandela Bay ahead of party interests?
The Bay council has appointed the Housing Development Agency (HDA) to upgrade informal settlements on its behalf — two days before the expiry of the deadline to spend the balance of a R314m grant.
Taps may be running dry as dams empty, but if this was not enough for beleaguered residents, the Nelson Mandela Bay council has now decided to introduce even harsher punitive water tariffs from July 1.
The Mandela Bay Development Agency has been given the green light to continue managing the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium for another year.
The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is once again considering insourcing contract workers, but this time it is has to do with meter readings.
Merging a skill that had been passed onto him by his carpenter grandfather and honed by years of studying sculpture at Nelson Mandela University, a Gqeberha artist has put together a collection of expressive abstract wooden sculpture…
Four days after proposing that the Nelson Mandela Bay council appoint Lonwabo Ngoqo as the metro's new city manager, UDM has made a U-turn and withdrawn its support for him.
If the council decides to push for Nelson Mandela Bay city manager Noxolo Nqwazi to vacate her post, the cost of any settlement agreement would come from the pockets of any councillors that voted in favour of the decision.
