The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality’s plan to clamp down on illegal electricity connections is yet to take off, though the metro appointed five contractors to curb the scourge back in 2019.
Fixing six cemeteries, construction of a water treatment works, stormwater improvements and tarring gravel roads in 37 wards.These are some of the projects allocated funding from the R720m ward-based budget for the 2022/2023 financial year.
While Gqeberha police hunt for the gunmen who killed two men and wounded a third on Tuesday night, the Airport Valley community continue to live in fear as crime escalates in the Walmer area.
A string of suspected hit murders, bogus police and the closure of a police station in one of Gqeberha’s most violent and dangerous policing precincts has left residents of Walmer Township living in fear.
Calls for the reopening of the Fountain Avenue police station in crime-ridden Walmer Township will now come at a much higher cost as vandals have stripped every available metal from the building, including the roof. The station was closed in 2017 due to non-maintenance, which posed a safety hazard.