The Daily Dispatch was the biggest winner at the regional Vodacom Awards in Gqeberha on Monday.Dispatch reporters walked away with seven awards from five of the 12 categories.
Buffalo City Metro is working overtime to find creative ways of complying with its own credit control bylaw passed recently by the council. This comes after the city was boxed into a corner over its illegal enforcement of its credit controls. Whenever a customer in arrears buys electricity, BCM takes 80% to service their total debt.
Security for councillors and senior officials in Buffalo City Metro is again in the spotlight after the council, in a closed meeting on Friday, approved a security detail for key officials.This comes just weeks after infrastructure director Nceba Ncunyana, who had previously acted as municipal manager, was shot dead on the N2 near Ntabozuko (formerly Berlin) on his way to a meeting. Ncunyana had been granted a protection detail by the city after he survived a second attempt on his life in 2022.
Fed-up residents of Quigney have vowed to get rid of all the car washers operating on the beach from this week. A group of residents, together with their neighbourhood crime forum and ward councillor Funeka Wolose, will on Wednesday “clean up” the beachfront which has seen a rise in pollution caused by dirty water from car washing and dumping by motorists.
Eastern Cape co-operative governance and traditional affairs MEC Zolile Williams has been dragged into the Amathole district municipality’s fight with its incoming chief financial officer, Lubabalo Manjingolo. Williams became involved with the case on Wednesday when a court ruled in favour of the ADM stance that he should have been cited on the matter as he had declined to concur with Manjingolo’s appointment in the position due to alleged non-disclosure of a pending criminal case.