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Inmates at St Albans Correctional Facility have complained of discoloured, foul-smelling water, which has reportedly caused many of them to fall ill
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St Albans prison hit by power outage amid ongoing water crisis

St Albans inmates are entering a fourth week of a water crisis, compounded by an electricity outage, increasing fears over their health and safety, and growing frustration over what they describe as an inadequate government response.

Only one lift has been working for about two months in the municipality's Lilian Diedericks Building
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Municipal staff reach new heights of frustration over broken lifts

Hundreds of Nelson Mandela Bay municipal employees have been left climbing up to 17 flights of stairs or enduring queues of up to 20 minutes to reach their offices at Lilian Diedericks building, with broken lifts disrupting daily work for…

Disagreements have emerged over the recruitment process for a chief financial officer
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Feathers ruffled over hunt for new Bay CFO

Allegations of political interference have surfaced in Nelson Mandela Bay after Mayor Babalwa Lobishe requested the postponement of interviews for the chief financial officer post.

Inmates at St Albans Correctional Centre say they are at risk after weeks of exposure to a discoloured, foul-smelling water supply
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St Albans inmates raise concerns about water quality amid illness reports

Nearly 1,000 inmates at St Albans Correctional Centre may have been exposed to potentially unsafe drinking water, with some reporting diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach pain amid allegations that discoloured, foul-smelling water is being…

Mayor faces court bid for personal liability over transformer deal

The DA has filed a court application seeking to hold Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Babalwa Lobishe and former acting city manager Ted Pillay personally liable for the irregular lease of a R25m municipal electricity transformer.

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