The beachfront’s Esplanade and Court Crescent have been given a colourful facelift thanks to talented Walter Sisulu University fine arts graduates, led by businessman and visual artist Nkokheli Mzimba.
The festive spirit is in the air in the Buffalo City Metro as residents gear up for the switching on of the lights this weekend, while work continues on the Esplanade Court Crescent development and the Waterworld Fun Park in Leaches Bay. Busy parts of the metro have been draped in colourful Christmas lights that brighten up the streets of East London and Qonce.
Buffalo City Metro is pulling out all the stops to clean up the city, and in doing so will provide hundreds of jobs and reduce pressure on our landfill sites. The city is rolling out buy-back centres and beautification programmes and employing workers to collect recyclable waste with the help of Buffalo City Municipality Development Agency (BCMDA) and Border Kei Chambers of Business (BKCOB), 653 new jobs will be created.
Forget Moby Dick, visitors to East London’s beachfront can now imagine themselves as the fictional Captain Ahab, thanks to the city’s latest esplanade installation. Tourists and residents will soon be having a whale of a time, enjoying features such as the new outdoor gym equipment and a life-size sculpture of Megaptera Novaeangliae.
Buffalo City Municipality’s council ignored concerns from the legal section of city’s development agency that there was no applicable legislation for the appointment of an interim board of a municipal entity, which was ultimately appointed amid contestation from the opposition. Concerns were raised by the Buffalo City Municipality Development Agency’s legal section before the expiry of the term of the previous board of the agency on August 31.