A dream getaway to the Wild Coast in the former Transkei turned into a nightmare for a group of East London friends and their children after they came under attack by balaclava-clad gunmen who fired at their car. However, they managed to escape and drive to a police station where they opened a case.
The King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality, the third-largest economy in the Eastern Cape, might have failed to become a metro, but municipal bosses this week announced grand plans to further bolster the local authority’s economy. Giving an administrative overview of the municipality during the first day of KSD’s mega strategic planning session at the Savoy Hotel and Conference Centre in Mthatha on Monday, municipal manager Ngamela Pakade revealed ambitious plans to revive a railway line betwee.
King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality mayor Nyaniso Nelani’s big dreams of turning his municipality into a metro in two years’ time have come crashing down.This after a proposal to incorporate another town and several municipal wards from two other local municipalities into KSD to form a category A municipality failed to convince the Municipal Demarcation Board.
Business owners in Mthatha and surrounding towns are being threatened by extortionists who sometimes order them to cough up as much as R30,000 for “protection”.Police spokesperson Captain Welile Matyolo told the Dispatch this week that at least seven cases had been reported so far.
Ratepaying households in the urban areas of Mthatha and surrounding towns who are in arrears to the King Sabata Dalindyebo (KSD) municipality for rates and services are being offered a 50% discount to clear their debt within six months.