Political parties in Nelson Mandela Bay have slammed the ANC after the arrest of city manager Noxolo Nqwazi and the allegations that three former DA councillors were paid off to help oust then-mayor Atholl Trollip.
A new multiparty coalition in Nelson Mandela Bay that managed to boot out the ANC-led coalition of Executive Mayor Eugene Johnson last week has set out its priorities to ‘get the city working again’, giving a damning analysis of a broken metro.
The new coalition government in Nelson Mandela Bay is expected to make changes to the male-dominated 14-member mayoral committee, which sparked a huge backlash for only consisting of one woman.
A humiliating public interview on her first day in office, being nicknamed “euJIK Johnson”, and finally ousted this week former mayor Eugene Johnson shrugged off the criticism she stirred by telling residents to use bleach to purify water, saying she was abused because she is a coloured woman.