Buckets of blessings spread among the poor: SPAR promotions and advertising controller Rose Shadrach (front, second from left) and members of her team are supporting the Festive Feed campaign this week, providing food for soup kitchens based in the townships. Photo: Leon Hugo SPAR Eastern Cape have joined hands with charity organisation Love Story in a twin initiative this week to spread some festive cheer to residents in Nelson Mandela Bay’s most impoverished areas. The SPAR Buckets of … [Read more...] about Buckets of blessings spread among the poor
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Bucket Toilet crisis: Mokonyane and Jordaan both turn a blind eye
The following is an extract from a speech delivered by DA NMB Mayoral Candidate, Athol Trollip, to the media during an oversight visit of houses with bucket toilets in Missionvale, Port Elizabeth. After visiting Walmer Township last year and witnessing the undignified way in which tens of thousands of our people are still forced to use bucket toilets, I am deeply disappointed to learn that both the NMB Municipality and the national government refuse to resolve the bucket toilet slight on the … [Read more...] about Bucket Toilet crisis: Mokonyane and Jordaan both turn a blind eye
Mokonyane ignores NMB bucket toilet crisis
Dear MyPE The inhumane sanitation which the ANC government continues to ignore in Nelson Mandela Bay must be ended. It is a desperately sad reality that our people in this Metro still use the highest number of bucket toilets in any Metro in South Africa. The ANC government is keeping people using undignified sanitation because it doesn't care enough to react. As my colleague Leon Basson MP said from Parliament last week: Minister Mokonyane is dodging and avoiding releasing this year's Blue … [Read more...] about Mokonyane ignores NMB bucket toilet crisis
Nelson Mandela Bay to Launch Bucket Eradication Programme
"To date, the Municipality has improved access to sanitation to 91%. The Municipality is committed to eradicating the inhumane and humiliating bucket system that is still in use in a number of local communities," this was the commitment made by Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality's Executive Mayor, Benson Fihla, in the State of the Metro Address last year in April. Responding to the call made by the Executive Mayor, the Municipality's Infrastructure and Engineering Directorate, working closely … [Read more...] about Nelson Mandela Bay to Launch Bucket Eradication Programme
