With only 3% of a R349m informal settlements upgrading grant spent so far in the 2023/2024 financial year, Nelson Mandela Bay councillors were bewildered by the lacklustre spending of various departments that were allocated funding.
Despite recent heavy rains filling up four dams in the Algoa Bay water supply system, the large Impofu Dam is still less than 30% full, and the eight-year drought in Nelson Mandela Bay is not yet broken.
The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has accused Bhisho’s housing department of stifling its efforts to ensure housing projects are completed on time.
The discovery of the body of an eight-year-old girl, brutally murdered and partially burnt, in an unfinished RDP house in Airport Valley has sent shock waves across the community.