The hub for arts and music, a breeding ground for sporting talent, and the home of heroic figures in SA’s turbulent political history these are just some of the role New Brighton has played over the past 120 years.
While walking home from school at the start of the 1976 student uprising in Gqeberha, Nomvume Mnyazi was the first casualty when she was shot dead by police in Mendi Road, New Brighton.
At a cost of R2.9m a year, 12 of the political appointees in Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Eugene Johnson’s office spend their days walking the streets looking for water leaks.
Four held in Bay for drugs, illegal weapons By Riaan Marais - 07 January 2021 PRISON Image: Allan Swart/123RF
Safer festive season operations in Nelson Mandela Bay continue to yield results as four more suspects were arrested on Tuesday on charges related to illegal weapons and drugs.
Two suspects were arrested at a known drug post in Rosedale, Uitenhage, at about 1pm when members of the anti-gang unit searched the house in Acacia Avenue.
According to police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu, a 21-year-old suspect, believed to be a gang member, was arrested after he was seen tossing a .38 revolver and ammunition over a wall into the next yard.