Four weeks ago a 100-strong contingent of business people, mainly Border-Kei Chamber of Business members, met BCMM to strategise ways to soften the impact of load-shedding, with an agreement to reconvene in a month, as they did last week.
Ten people have been confirmed dead and several are missing after floods caused by torrential rain swept through several towns in the Eastern Cape, destroying billions of rands worth of infrastructure and roads.
The Border-Kei Chamber of Business has raised concerns about the leasing of a BCM sports stadium to Chippa Holdings, pleading with the municipality to review its decision, which it said was crippling sports activities in the metro. The chamber, in a recent letter to mayor Xola Pakati, claimed the leasing of East London’s Jan Smuts Athletics Stadium to Chippa United FC boss Siviwe “Chippa” Mpengesi for the next 20 years, has literally “killed athletics in our city”.