After returning to work for just seven days, Nelson Mandela Bay city manager Noxolo Nqwazi will have to explain again why she should not be placed on precautionary suspension as the council wants to reinstate the charges against her.
The trial of city manager Noxolo Nqwazi, suspended metro housing boss Mvuleni Mapu and several others implicated in a multimillion-rand fraud case is finally ready to continue.
A motion that calls for the removal of colonial heritage sites, statues and portraits of apartheid mayors in Nelson Mandela Bay will not be tabled at Thursday’s council meeting.
A decision on hundreds of years of history could be made as soon as Thursday, with the EFF in Nelson Mandela Bay calling for the immediate removal of colonial heritage sites, statues and portraits of apartheid mayors across the metro.
With only 3% of a R349m informal settlements upgrading grant spent so far in the 2023/2024 financial year, Nelson Mandela Bay councillors were bewildered by the lacklustre spending of various departments that were allocated funding.