A dozen Nelson Mandela Bay metro officials who were placed on suspension, some since June 2021, continue to enjoy their full salaries at ratepayers’ expense while the city drags its feet in concluding their cases.
Struggling to generate revenue from its 8,000 facilities, the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality wants its development agency to take over the management of municipal leases, with some having expired decades ago.
The DA has called on employment and labour minister Thulas Nxesi to intervene in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro, to allow the municipality to use its own race scorecard for its equity policy.
A desperate bid to cling to power that was how the ANC described a motion of exigency filed by the DA on Thursday that calls for a review of the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality’s equity policy, which has been widely condemned for years.
The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is scrambling to find R68m in back pay for 640 safety and security directorate watchmen whose employment scale was incorrectly graded when they were absorbed by the city in 2017.