Instability within the city manager’s office and senior management ranks, a significant backlog in finalising investigations and despite strategic plans to curb electricity and water losses, Nelson Mandela Bay continues to grapple with unacceptably high rates thereof.
With thousands of street lights out of commission and hundreds of temporary electrical connections in Nelson Mandela Bay, the DA has called for action to be directed at the electricity and energy department directorate to fix the problems and alleviate the added burden of darkness on residents already grappling with load-shedding.
The R75, which links Kariega and Despatch to the broader Nelson Mandela Bay area, is beset with smashed guardrails, broken traffic lights and overgrown grass along the centre island.
The entrances to several problematic buildings in Central, harbouring vagrants and criminals, have been bricked up pending approval to have some of them demolished.
Lingering issues in annual financial statements place a threat on the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality regressing from its unqualified audit for the 2022/2023 fiscal year the first in 12 years.