In keeping with mayor Nyaniso Nelani’s dream of turning Mthatha into another Kigali, the King Sabata Dalindyebo (KSD) municipality is buying 100 additional dustbins for the Eastern Cape town. Though many Mthatha streets already have dustbins, residents and businesses have called for more to keep the town centre clean.
The King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality, the third-largest economy in the Eastern Cape, might have failed to become a metro, but municipal bosses this week announced grand plans to further bolster the local authority’s economy. Giving an administrative overview of the municipality during the first day of KSD’s mega strategic planning session at the Savoy Hotel and Conference Centre in Mthatha on Monday, municipal manager Ngamela Pakade revealed ambitious plans to revive a railway line betwee.
Ruthless criminals in Mthatha are sabotaging crucial infrastructure meant to ensure a steady supply of electricity to the town’s citizens. King Sabata Dalindyebo municipal bosses have expressed dismay over a flurry of reports and video footage in which people are seen burning electricity infrastructure in the area.
King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality mayor Nyaniso Nelani’s big dreams of turning his municipality into a metro in two years’ time have come crashing down.This after a proposal to incorporate another town and several municipal wards from two other local municipalities into KSD to form a category A municipality failed to convince the Municipal Demarcation Board.
In what will be a welcome relief for many residents in the eastern parts of the province, OR Tambo district municipality bosses will soon be able to generate electricity to ease load-shedding and water-shortage challenges, especially in Mthatha.In 2003, the Mthatha-based district authority was appointed by the national government to provide clean water to residents of the KSD, Mhlontlo, Port St Johns, Ingquza Hill and Nyandeni local municipalities.