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Metro establishes Joint Communications Task Team to tackle water crisis

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Friday, 27th May 2022, Nelson Mandela Bay City Manager, Dr Noxolo Nqwazi announced the establishment a multi-stakeholder team towards improving the communication and messaging around the drought induced water crisis currently gripping Nelson Mandel Bay. The city is battling unrelenting water consumption challenge on the back of fast dwindling supplies.

The joint communications effort comes after assessments of the current modus operandi. The work of this Communication Task Team will be driven from the NMB Water Crisis JOC. The JOC is chaired by the Director of Disaster Management, Shane Brown, is a multi-stakeholder platform that includes various levels of Government and Civil Society. The intention of this joint communications effort is to foster partnerships and collaboration between all role players.

The task team which is made up of Communications officials from the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber, and the Mandela Bay Development Agency is supported by specialist agencies based in the Bay, and research input from the South African Cities Network.

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