The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is grappling with a mounting backlog of applications for the assistance to the poor (ATTP) programme as scores of residents await registration.
A crucial cog of local government, the offices of councillors throughout Nelson Mandela Bay are in a state of disrepair with the estimated cost for repair and maintenance sitting at more than R16m.
A minibus and a bus were torched on the Addo Road as informal settlement residents took their frustrations over a lack of electricity to the streets, blockading the road with rocks and burning tyres on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning.