The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality would like to inform residents that water will be shut down in parts of the City for maintenance on Tuesday, the 30th of April 2019. The maintenance carried out will help the NMBM Water Loss Programme to assist in reducing the water losses within the jurisdiction of the Municipal boundary. The affected area is Parsons Ridge and the water supply will be disrupted between 09H00 and 14H00. We apologize for any inconvenience caused. … [Read more...] about Water Shutdown in City
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United Democratic Movement – 2019
Ahead of the 8 May National Elections you would do well to acquaint yourself with the Political Parties registered on the National level for the elections. Today we introduce you to: United Democratic Movement - UDM Bantu Holomisa's UDM fared slightly better in the 2014 national elections than it had in 2009, but the overall trajectory for the party has not been positive - except in the Eastern Cape, which has always been Holomisa's power base. With four seats in the National … [Read more...] about United Democratic Movement – 2019
South African National Congress Of Traditional Authorities – 2019
Ahead of the 8 May National Elections you would do well to acquaint yourself with the Political Parties registered on the National level for the elections. Today we introduce you to: South African National Congress Of Traditional Authorities-SANCOTA Sancota launched in February 2019 on a platform of traditional African values and protecting the power of traditional leaders. The man behind the party is reportedly Themba Sigudla, a former ally of Deputy President David Mabuza before … [Read more...] about South African National Congress Of Traditional Authorities – 2019
South African Maintenance And Estate Beneficiaries Association – 2019
Ahead of the 8 May National Elections you would do well to acquaint yourself with the Political Parties registered on the National level for the elections. Today we introduce you to: South African Maintenance And Estate Beneficiaries Association - SAMEBA Sameba, led by president Makgorometse Gift Makhaba, contested the 2014 national elections as well, but appears to have won so few votes that it is not listed in the official IEC results for that year. It recently (unsuccessfully) … [Read more...] about South African Maintenance And Estate Beneficiaries Association – 2019
Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party – 2019
Ahead of the 8 May National Elections you would do well to acquaint yourself with the Political Parties registered on the National level for the elections. Today we introduce you to: Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party - SRWP The SRWP is the political party arm of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa). Although it hoped to win the support of the workers, it was almost immediately dealt a blow in 2018 when Zwelinzima Vavi's South African Federation of Trade Unions … [Read more...] about Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party – 2019
Power Of Africans Unity – 2019
Ahead of the 8 May National Elections you would do well to acquaint yourself with the Political Parties registered on the National level for the elections. Today we introduce you to: Power Of Africans Unity - PAU The Power of Africans Unity party has been around since 2016, with former UDM member Julius Nsingwane as its president. Nsingwane has been known to wear T-shirts featuring his own face, but insists PAU is not a "one-man party". Exactly what it is, however, is hard to say - … [Read more...] about Power Of Africans Unity – 2019
People’s Revolutionary Movement – 2019
Ahead of the 8 May National Elections you would do well to acquaint yourself with the Political Parties registered on the National level for the elections. Today we introduce you to: People's Revolutionary Movement - PRM Launched in 2016 in KwaZulu-Natal, the PRM is led by president Nhlanhla Buthelezi - who has previously used his Twitter account to describe the EFF's Julius Malema as "a whites' surrogate" and the EFF as a "white-formed party". The PRM has received most of its … [Read more...] about People’s Revolutionary Movement – 2019
Patriotic Alliance – 2019
Ahead of the 8 May National Elections you would do well to acquaint yourself with the Political Parties registered on the National level for the elections. Today we introduce you to: Patriotic Alliance - PA Ex-con-turned-businessman-and-self-help-writer Gayton McKenzie is the man behind the Patriotic Alliance, formed in 2013. In 2014 the party won just over 13,000 votes nationally, but despite that poor showing has since played a prominent role in the politics of Nelson Mandela … [Read more...] about Patriotic Alliance – 2019
Pan Africanist Congress Of Azania – 2019
Ahead of the 8 May National Elections you would do well to acquaint yourself with the Political Parties registered on the National level for the elections. Today we introduce you to: Pan Africanist Congress Of Azania - PAC The PAC is one of the granddaddy political parties contesting the 2019 polls, having been formed in 1959 by a group led by Robert Sobukwe. The PAC was pushing for land redistribution before the EFF Fighters were in nappies, but like a number of other older … [Read more...] about Pan Africanist Congress Of Azania – 2019
Human Settlements programmes responding to societal needs
More than 300 municipal councillors, traditional leaders and officials from various Eastern Cape municipalities were awarded certificates upon successful completion of Human Settlements Management short learning programmes undertaken at Nelson Mandela University over the last two years. Partaking in these short learning programmes was part of a capacity-building initiative commissioned to the university by the Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements and the Nelson Mandela Bay … [Read more...] about Human Settlements programmes responding to societal needs
National People’s Front
Ahead of the 8 May National Elections you would do well to acquaint yourself with the Political Parties registered on the National level for the elections. Today we introduce you to: National People's Front - NAPF The NAPF has swopped around the initials of rival party the National Freedom Party (NFP) in what some might suspect is a sneaky attempt to win some of its rival's votes. After all, party leader Bheki Gumbi founded the NAPF after leaving the NFP - where he served as … [Read more...] about National People’s Front
Make your Mark tomorrow
South African expats will tomorrow head to the country’s high commissions, embassies and consulates-general around the world to cast their votes in the national and provincial elections. The date, 27 April, coincides with exactly 25 years to the day South Africans first voted in the first democratic elections in 1994. The Independent Electoral Commission, in a statement on Thursday, said overseas voting will continue for almost 24 hours as voting stations open and then close around the … [Read more...] about Make your Mark tomorrow
Municipality deserves pat on the back
"The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality deserves a pat on the back for the publication of a well-researched liberation heritage book, entitled A Walk Through Our Past"; launched at the Nangoza Jebe Hall yesterday. The Eastern Cape MEC for Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture, Bulelwa Tunyiswa, made this remark and announced a number of critical liberation heritage projects currently ongoing in the province during her keynote address at the event. “I am taking this opportunity to extend a hand … [Read more...] about Municipality deserves pat on the back
National Peoples Ambassadors – 2019
Ahead of the 8 May National Elections you would do well to acquaint yourself with the Political Parties registered on the National level for the elections. Today we introduce you to: National Peoples Ambassadors The (National Peoples Ambassadors) NPA - not to be confused with the National Prosecuting Authority - calls itself a "radical, left, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movement with an internationalist outlook", formed in 2015. Its principles are EFF-lite: Like the … [Read more...] about National Peoples Ambassadors – 2019
National Freedom Party – 2019
Ahead of the 8 May National Elections you would do well to acquaint yourself with the Political Parties registered on the National level for the elections. Today we introduce you to: National Freedom Party The National Freedom Party (NFP) is easily one of the more mysterious South African political parties, because for some time it has been unclear who's running it. Its ostensible president is Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi, one of just three female party leaders in the country. But … [Read more...] about National Freedom Party – 2019
