More than 1,000 children polished their shoes and packed their books for the start of the new school term only to be left stranded on the side of the road due to the transport department’s alleged failure to pay operators.
Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Gary Van Niekerk’s 10-point plan to tackle crime in the city got little love in council on Thursday, with opposition councillors calling him a criminal who must resign.
The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality wants to make a U-turn on its decision last year to impose punitive tariffs on water users whose consumption is high in a bid to bolster the city’s revenue collection efforts.
The instigator behind false allegations on social media that a gay initiate was raped and killed, will now be investigated, after the Phila Ndoda movement, together with representatives of the LGBTQI+ community, opened a criminal case of defamation.
Three KwaMagxaki families have lost track of the different Nelson Mandela Bay municipal reference numbers they have received since 2020 in an attempt to get the municipality to fix an underground leak that has left their gardens in Ralo Street perpetually flooded