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Nelson Mandela Nay Executive Mayor, Retief Odendaal today announced changes to the Mayoral Committee. Mayor Odendaal has relinquished the position of Budget and Treasury a portfolio that he kept in his office as a temporary intervention; Cllr Rano Kayser has been shifted from MMC Constituency Services and has been appointed MMC Roads and Transport. Cllr Kabelo Mogatosi has been shifted from MMC Roads and Transport and has been appointed MMC Budget and Treasury. Both Cllr’s Kayser and Mogatosi … [Read more...] about Mayor Odendaal Relinquishes Position

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality water infrastructure augmentation projects completion is taking shape.The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality in January 2023 committed that a number of water infrastructure augmentation projects will be completed by the end of March this year. On Tuesday, 14 March 2023 the St George’s Wellfield (borehole) project will be officially commissioned and connected into the water articulation system. This project will add about 10 million litres of water per day into the … [Read more...] about St Georges Wellfield to be Commissioned

I have a good friend (recently deceased) who, for many years, worked at the Municipality in the Electricity Department.For many years we would discuss the well functioning electricity department and the many characters involved there during the ‘good old days’. One of the glaring missing Standard Operating Procedures that Tony alerted me too again and again was the regular maintenence that the electricity department subjected sub stations and pump rooms to. A team of municipal employees had the … [Read more...] about F*ck Regular Maintenance, We Prefer Capital Projects

Editor: When do you know that it is time to hang up your gloves? When your very own Wikipedia entry says; “In June 2012 Kiviet was rated as the worst performing provincial premier by the South African Public Service Commission.” AND your education record is reported as; “She completed the Bachelor of Administrative (B.Admin) at the [University of Fort Hare] ‘This is under question as the University of Fort Hare calls into doubt her post graduate qualifications’, B. Admin Honours at the same … [Read more...] about Time to to expose degree fraudster Noxolo Kiviet

Eastern Cape, 10 March 2023 – The South African National Roads Agency SOC Limited (SANRAL) updated local stakeholders at a two-day engagement session on the progress made on the N2 Wild Coast Road Project and other adjacent projects in Pondoland, Eastern Cape. The sessions took place recently in Lusikisiki and near Port Edward, respectively. Local SMMEs who aspire to benefit from the projects, municipal leaders, members from designated groups such as the youth, women and people with … [Read more...] about Updates on N2 Wild Coast Road Project

According to OUTA, the record of the decisions on state of disaster shows that the head of the National Disaster Management Centre and the Minister did not initially believe the electricity situation should be declared a national disaster, but changed their minds with no explanationGovernment’s own records show that those consulted by government did not support the declaration of a national state of disaster on the electricity supply crisis but believed that the electricity crisis could be … [Read more...] about Electricity state of disaster was declared without evidence