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Makhanda shutdown set to continue Tuesday


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Makana Mayor Mzukisi Mpahlwa addresses community members from the back of a bakkie in front of the City Hall, Makhanda, Monday 24 May 2021. With him are organisers of the shutdown from the taxi associations and the UPM. Photo: Sue Maclennan
Makhanda shutdown set to continue Tuesday
Taxi association and civic organisation representatives late this afternoon confirmed that the blockades Makhanda experienced today would continue from 7am Tuesday morning 25 May. Hundreds of taxis from GRATA and Uncedo taxi associations, supported by a large group of residents and Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM) members, today saw most businesses closed across the city and minimal attendance at public schools. ....

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Fed-up businesses decide to fix Makhanda potholes themselves


Andile Sithole
Businesses have taken it upon themselves to fix the potholes.
The initiative comes two months after Makhanda taxi operators used their own money and manpower to fix some of the worst potholes in the town.
Fed up with pothole-riddled roads of the once well-run university town of Makhanda in the Eastern Cape, businesses have taken it upon themselves to fix it.
ICT and telecommunications companies, Vox, Ecologic (also known as Grahamstown Wi-Fi) and Frogfoot, have partnered to fix 300 potholes in the town as part of a project that s expected to take two months. 
Vox CEO Jacques du Toit announced this in a statement on Tuesday.  ....

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'Shape up or ship out' SCOPA tells Makana leadership


‘Shape up or ship out’ SCOPA tells Makana leadership
Parliament had Makhanda’s long-running water crisis and Makana’s management practices in its sights during an oversight visit to the municipality this week. Makana was one of five Eastern Cape municipalities Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) visited last week.
In a day of relentless questioning, MPs shredded officials from Makana, Amatola Water and the Department of Water and Sanitation. And as if to test the Committee’s assertion that nothing would stand in their way, a deafening thunderstorm exploding midway through the harrowing four-hour probe merely had chairperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa advising those asking and answering questions to “use your rally voice”. ....

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