13+ hour, 44+ min ago   (1619+ words) Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Babalwa Lobishe’s State of the Metro Address – delivered at a gala dinner estimated to have cost ratepayers R235,000 – was boycotted not only by opposition parties but by several of her coalition partners, as the metro battles water,…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (599+ words) Meaningful collaborative governance is not a one-off act of consultation or planning but an ongoing cycle of collective sense-making, action, accountability and learning. Sinazo Nkwelo is a portfolio director at the DG Murray Trust responsible for place-based development, working in…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (199+ words) The delays around the Municipal Structures Amendment Bill expose government negligence towards local government stability, and raise the threat of coalition-driven chaos extending beyond the November elections. Hlumelo Xaba is a research officer at Civic Root Advocacy. The Department of…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (978+ words) Amid ongoing awareness campaigns and vaccination drives, Nelson Mandela Bay is not out of the woods yet as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has spread to a new location in the city and remains a major concern for veterinary authorities. State veterinary…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (1354+ words) Residents are reporting inconsistent electricity charges and rebate payments, while the Nelson Mandela Bay metro has yet to complete calculations for August, adding to confusion over the implementation of the court-ordered return to the inclining block tariff. Nelson Mandela Bay…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (670+ words) It has a name: fiscal fiction. Spending as though the cash were already in the bank. But increasingly, it isn’t. A new report from the Centre for Development and Enterprise shows just how far Johannesburg has let that fiction run....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (764+ words) True collaborative local governance needs to move beyond superficial community consultation toward active, joint problem-solving, where both can address interconnected system failures, ahead of the elections. Sinazo Nkwelo is a portfolio director at the DG Murray Trust responsible for place-based…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1003+ words) The metro is battling thousands of water-leak complaints while some communities go without water for weeks, and failing wastewater infrastructure is sending raw sewage into rivers, estuaries and the sea. With up to 1,000 water-related complaints received weekly, the Nelson Mandela…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (1268+ words) The chaos at City licensing centres is a direct fallout of a 13-month financial standoff in which the City admits it owes more than a year in licensing fees to the province, compounded by severe municipal procurement negligence. The collapse…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (991+ words) Opposition parties accuse Nelson Mandela Bay’s ruling coalition of hypocrisy after National Treasury forced it to backtrack on a R23-billion UIFWE write-off. The ACDP in Nelson Mandela Bay has accused Municipal Public Accounts Committee (MPAC) chair Luxolo Namette and Mayor…...