From vandalism to unfilled critical posts due to a jobs freeze, the Buffalo City Metro's annual report for the 2022/2023 financial year has painted a grim picture of the state of the city's libraries.
Despite grand promises by Buffalo City Metro mayor Princess Faku that the long-delayed Mdantsane NU2 pool would be completed during her first 100 days in office, no work has been done on the project since she took over a year ago. In fact, according to the main contractor on the multimillion-rand project, the NLG Group, the last day of work done on the promised state-of-the-art pool precinct was in July 2022, about eight months before she took over as the city’s executive mayor.
Buffalo City Metro mayor Princess Faku has announced plans by the city to formally train the much-feared Mdantsane anti-crime forums to bolster efforts to fight criminality.
Robberies and vandalism are at hundreds of unsecured schools across the province are a major problem, but a bigger problem is the terror of teachers employed to teach the province's children.
BCM mayor Xola Pakati will deliver his sixth state of the city address today, facing massive scrutiny from unhappy residents and a business community that has aired its many frustrations with the metro over the past year. There are a number of high-level and big-budget projects under way across the metro, but many question the validity of the metro and Pakati’s favourite hashtag on social media, “A City Hard At Work”.