In January 2022 the Nahoon Estuary Forum successfully obtained a court order against Buffalo City Metro (BCM), giving the municipality 180 days to address the continuous sewage spills into the Nahoon River from the Nompumelelo township in Beacon Bay.
The Amathole district municipality paid hundreds of millions of rand for questionable tenders, with more than R230m between 2017 and this year paid to service providers whose contracts have been red-flagged by the ailing council’s new leadership. The struggling municipality has recently battled to pay staff salaries.