With about 10,000 broken street lights in Nelson Mandela Bay, the municipality has started a programme to repair 3,000 of them and 1,000 high mast lights.
A landlord who cut off water for three families at a residence in Korsten in December has finally switched on the much-needed resource after an outcry from his tenants.
With a focus on improving roads to promote economic development and improve residents’ quality of life, Nelson Mandela Bay mayoral committee member for roads and transport councillor Kabelo Mogatosi handed over a completed street construction project in Schauderville on Friday.
Traffic congestion, a rising crime rate and lack of visible policing, piles of rubbish everywhere that are magnets for rats, and businesses forced to operate from the street.