Furious Kariega residents dump their garbage outside rubbish collectors’ homes
24 out of the municipality’s 36 trucks are still being repaired
Brief | 18 March 2022
Staff shut down Uitenhage Provincial Hospital for several hours in protest over closure of TB hospitals
“They must bring us stats that say TB is not killing people anymore” says NEHAWU leader
Brief | 10 March 2022
The “Friendly City” is filthy
Only 11 of Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s 36 refuse trucks are operational
Brief | 9 February 2022
Man claims police assaulted him during stop-and-search incident
Police say docket handed to IPID
Brief | 28 January 2022
Shack dwellers build ward councillor an office
“We want to be served closer to where we live” says resident
Brief | 27 January 2022
Water crisis disrupts schools in Nelson Mandela Bay
Taps have been dry for ten days in KwaNobuhle
Brief | 26 January 2022
There will be no funerals until the sewage system is fixed, residents threaten
“We live in a pigsty”
Brief | 15 November 2021
Nelson Mandela Bay says it will not provide services to new land occupations
The municipality is in the process of “formalising” 156 informal settlements by providing services like water, electricity and tarring roads
News | 19 October 2021
Couple living with disability left homeless by fire
Yoliswa Maneli and Andisile January want to be allocated one of the many unoccupied houses in the area
Brief | 24 August 2021