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Severe drought continues to tighten its grip in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro, with dam levels critically low, at a combined capacity of 17.55%.
The main dams, Kouga and Impofu, have not been full since November 2015, while the city continues to see high-water usage that exceeds the current water supply.
NMB is restricted by the Department of Water and Sanitation to extract 268 million litres a day only, but it currently uses about 300 million litres a day.
Severe drought continues to tighten its grip in Nelson Mandela Bay metro with dam levels critically low with a combined capacity of 17.55%.
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Data from FNB’s latest Commercial Property Broker Survey points to a market in distress.
Splitting the survey into three main commercial property classes – namely office, industrial and retail – brokers surveyed by FNB perceive the industrial property market to be the strongest of the three.
This is with an average time on the market for occupied industrial properties of 23.26 weeks – quicker than the 25.07 weeks in the case of retail, and 25.86 weeks for office space.
All three property sectors have the majority of respondents pointing to ‘supply exceeding demand’, either ‘somewhat’ or ‘far’. The industrial market possesses the lowest percentage of respondents, i.e. 74% perceiving supply to exceed demand, whereas 80% perceive supply to exceed demand in retail property and 95% in the case of the office property.
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Council approval required if acting city manager clinches deal with Safa PREMIUM By Nomazima Nkosi - 12 February 2021
Nelson Mandela Bay could host the Africa Cup of Nations 2022 qualifier match between Bafana Bafana and Ghana in March.
The mayoral committee on Thursday gave approval for acting city manager Mandla George to enter into an agreement with the South African Football Association (Safa) regarding having the game in the Bay.
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Bay infrastructure boss set to leave metro By Michael Kimberley - 11 February 2021
Nelson Mandela Bay’s infrastructure and engineering executive director Walter Shaidi, who has been accused of fraud, has been granted special leave while the details of a separation agreement are drawn up.
This is according to a memo, written by acting city manager Mandla George, that was sent to municipal staff on Monday.
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