Nomazima Nkosi

The DA wants the municipal public accounts committee to investigate whether the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality received value for money in multi-million upgrades conducted at the historic Smartie Bridge in Swartkops.

A quarterly risk management report of the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has painted a grim picture of the city’s finances, showing overall spending was sitting at just 37% as of April 30. Councillors described the spending as criminal, in a city that is

The city wants to roll out electronically controlled water meters to indigent households in a bid to slash excessive consumption and stem mounting financial losses that are costing the municipality about R600m a year.

Despite months of intermittent disruptions and muddy water across Nelson Mandela Bay, the municipality has spent just a fraction of its infrastructure and engineering capital budget for the 2025/2026 financial year.

Police say they have not ruled out a political motive in the murder of slain Nelson Mandela Bay ward councillor Sicelo Mleve , after a major breakthrough in the case.

The Mandela Bay Development Agency has come under fierce scrutiny after senior municipal officials accused its board of flouting governance laws, sidelining the municipality that funds it and meeting less than 30% of its targets.

South Africa’s vocational training system cannot solve the country’s skills crisis on its own, with industry urged to play a far greater role in producing job-ready artisans as rapid technological change reshapes the market.

Nelson Mandela Bay deputy mayor Gary van Niekerk says the coalition’s biggest problem is not the coalition but the mayor

The National Treasury has tightened the financial noose around the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, temporarily withholding its July equitable share tranche allocation.

As South Africa races to strengthen its fragile electricity grid, a multi-billion-rand renewable energy project in the Eastern Cape has cleared a major hurdle, with developers securing all regulatory approvals for a 2GW hybrid facility designed to deliver