Contractors used their trucks to blockade a number of public roads and facilities around Nelson Mandela Bay on Monday, demanding that the metro pay up R15m owed for work done earlier in 2022.
A fractured administration with deeply divided factions, mayoral committee members who act as mayors and coalition politics influencing decisions in council.
Confident that the DA will take control of Nelson Mandela Bay through a new coalition government, Bhisho MPL Retief Odendaal has emerged as the party’s mayoral candidate while several parties will sign a coalition agreement on Thursday.
Fifteen trucks and a private vehicle damaged and looted, and millions of rand lost, yet not a single one of Nelson Mandela Bay’s political leaders uttered a word publicly about the violent protests that have wreaked havoc in Motherwell for almost a week.