The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is forging ahead to keep cables out of the reach of thieves through its R3.5m high-mast solar lights pilot programme.
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.
It has taken the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality more than two years to try to wrap up a tender for disaster relief packages with the process stuck at the last hurdle for the past two months.
Ratepayers are likely to cough up more for services in Nelson Mandela Bay, paying 6% more for water, sanitation and refuse, while the proposed tariff increase for electricity is a whopping 18.49%.