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MBDA recruits hit flooded streets

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The Mandela Bay Development Agency, an entity of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality recently unveiled an army of street cleaners, waste pickers, tree-felling and general waste collection workers to tackle the decay in the precincts of Kariega, Gqeberha and North End precinct as a top us service to metro initiatives. With the recent heavy rains that have caused devastation in many parts of the Metro, and particularly in Kariega, the Agency’s management decided to redirect some of these resources to support the clean up effort in Kariega to assist citizens of that region.

The MBDA’s operation in Kariega, the Nelson Mandela Bay Science and Technology Centre was also not spared by the heavy rains resulting in that centre having to halt operations for Monday to complete its own clean-up effort. Normal services at the NMBSTC will resume on Wednesday 5th June.

MBDA CEO Anele Qaba says of the effort “Kariega is very much in our mandate area and for us represents a new opportunity to fast-track development in that part of the metro. We already have 75 recruits cleaning up the CBD and we felt it is the right thing to do, to redirect them to support the citizens hit hardest by the floods and to accelerate the return to normality so that people can get back to work and that the economy does not suffer further”.

“We have already contacted the city’s management team at the Disaster Management’s Joint Operations Centre, and we will take direction from them”. Concludes Qaba.

Deployment: The 206 clean up army is deployed as follows:

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