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Dear MyPE The ongoing protests and wilful destruction of critical infrastructure in Stutterheim can only be brought to an end if an Amahlathi Local Municipality council meeting is held tomorrow to implement the removal of the Mayor. DA Cllr Richard Pickering has written to the Speaker of Council and confirmed that the DA will consider taking legal action if the Mayor, Pateka Qaba, is not removed tomorrow. This after failing ANC councillors sabotaged two previous council … [Read more...] about Remove the Amahlathi Mayor

Dear MyPE Teachers and academic staff across the Eastern Cape returned to school today to prepare for the upcoming academic year. I was joined by Mlindi Nhanha, EC Premier Campaign Spokesperson, and Ross Purdon, Ntsikana Constituency Leader, in conducting oversight inspections at three schools in the Somerset East area. The William Oates Primary School is experiencing a massive lack of funding from the Eastern Cape Department of Education. The school has to make do with 17 teachers for … [Read more...] about Eastern Cape schools suffer due to lack of funding

Dear MyPE Sixteen years ago the failing ANC built RDP houses Eluxolweni in Makhanda without flushing toilets. Today the situation is so dire that some people have to relieve themselves in the bush. Makana Local Municipality have not collected bucket toilets since December 2018 and sewage is flowing into the streets. Today I did an oversight inspection at Eluxolweni in Makhanda. I was joined by Solly Malatsi, DA Team One South Africa Campaign Spokesperson, Makashule Gana, DA Team … [Read more...] about MaKan’t

Dear MyPE Today, 7 January 2019, I conducted an oversight inspection at an illegally occupied housing development and a temporary housing site in the Buffalo City Metro. I was joined by Makashule Gana, DA Team One South Africa Spokesperson for Basic Services, Solly Malatsi, DA Team One South Africa Campaign Spokesperson, Kevin Mileham, EC Premier Campaign Spokesperson for Basic Services, and Mlindi Nhanha, EC Premier Campaign Spokesperson. We inspected the housing project in Vergenoeg … [Read more...] about Manipulated housing list leads to suffering

Dear MyPE Today we flighted our registration weekend poster in Stanford Road in the Northern Areas of Port Elizabeth. While doing this we highlighted the message that only the people of this country have the power to remove the failing ANC government come the 2019 national elections. I was joined by Natasha Mazzone, DA Team One South Africa Spokesperson for State Capture, and Edmund van Vuuren, PE Northern Areas Constituency Leader. South Africans have a last chance to register to vote … [Read more...] about Bhanga urges voters to register to vote

Dear MyPE The appalling living conditions of the residents of KwaThatha and Sun City informal settlements in Makhanda (Grahamstown) is a human rights crisis and the broken ANC governed Makana Local Municipality must take full responsibility for this. Yesterday, 5 December 2018, I was joined by the DA Team One South Africa Spokesperson on Basic Services, Makashule Gana, DA EC Premier Campaign Spokesperson, Cllr Mlindi Nhanha, and local councillors and conducted an oversight inspection to … [Read more...] about Human rights crisis in broken Makana Municipality

Dear MyPE The failing ANC provincial government and its absent Premier, Phumulo Masualle, have lost control of the violence, criminality and the total service delivery failure in Stutterheim in the Amahlathi Local Municipality. The recent news that the ANC has fired the Amahtlathi Mayor Pateka Qaba and is in the process of dissolving the Mayoral Committee, is too little too late. The town has been under siege from violent protestors for more than a month. Residents and the business … [Read more...] about Stutterheim jobs on line

Dear MyPE During the past few days I have been overwhelmed by the warm welcome I have received from people across the rural Eastern Cape. On Friday I kicked off my tour to the rural Eastern Cape by visiting Port St Johns and assisting 150 young people to register to vote at the local IEC offices. The unemployment rate amongst the youth is the highest, with national statistics showing 68% between the ages of 15-24 years are unemployed. A DA government will create fair access to real … [Read more...] about Rural Eastern Cape ready for change

Dear MyPE The suspension of Nelson Mandela Bay City Manager, Mr Johann Mettler, by NMB Mayor Mongameli Bobani and his ANC-led coalition of corruption, has been coming since Mettler’s arrival in the City. Cllr Bobani was part of a cabal that in 2013 forced former City Manager Lindiwe Msengana-Ndlela out of her position. In 2015 the Metro had to pay R3.1 million in damages, including interest and legal costs, to Ms Msengana-Ndlela. Cllr Bobani opposed the employment of Mr Mettler and Ms … [Read more...] about NMB Mayor Bobani desperate to get rid of Mettler to avoid prosecution

Dear MyPE The appalling living conditions of the residents of Skiti Informal Settlement in Butterworth is a human rights crisis and the Amathole District Municipality (ADM) must take full responsibility for this. On 1 November 2018, I was joined by Chantel King MP, Phesheya Kwenciba Constituency Leader, and conducted an oversight inspection at Skiti Informal Settlement. The people of Skiti have been living in inhumane conditions since raw sewage started flowing in the local river, into … [Read more...] about Human rights crisis in Skiti Settlement is ignored

Dear MyPE The DA in in Nelson Mandela Bay will be tabling a no confidence motion in Executive Mayor Mongameli Bobani after allegations in the media that he received hundreds of thousands of rands in an allegedly corrupt relationship with a Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality IPTS Service provider. These alleged corrupt actions, in which billions were lost by the failing ANC-led government, is alluded to in a reported affidavit by the Hawks. Earlier this month the Hawks swooped in on … [Read more...] about DA to table motion of no confidence in NMB Mayor Bobani’s coalition of corruption

Dear MyPE Factions within the failing ANC in Amahlati Municipality are tearing Stutterheim and the province apart. According to reports an estimated 500 local youths, many of whom are allegedly linked to the failing ANC, burned four Amahlathi Local Municipality buildings and tyres, stoned vehicles and blocked roads. Yesterday sabotage also left Stutterheim without electricity Unhappiness with tenders, EPWP and Sanral jobs and poor service delivery are the main issues these young people … [Read more...] about Failing ANC responsible for Stutterheim war-zone

Dear MyPE The Democratic Alliance in Nelson Mandela Bay will be writing to Executive Mayor Mongameli Bobani as well as the Speaker of Council to insist that an urgent council meeting be held in order to deal with the illegal appointment of Ms Noxolo Nqwazi as Acting City Manager by the Mayoral Committee. Section 54 A (1) of the Municipal Systems Act is very clear that only Council can appoint a municipal manager. The Municipality’s comments that Ms Nolwandle Gqiba resigned as Acting … [Read more...] about NMB Acting City Manager appointed illegally

Dear MyPE The DA in the Eastern Cape welcomes the visit of the Hawks to the Nelson Mandela Bay City Hall. The Hawks are furthering their investigation into the IPTS scandal. Under the failing ANC government R2.5 billion of the people’s money was wasted on an IPTS that never got off the ground. The DA calls on Mayor Mongameli Bobani and the failing ANC-led coalition of corruption in NMB to stand up and be counted. The Mayor must give his full support to the investigation and prove … [Read more...] about DA calls on ANC to cooperate with NMB Hawks investigation

Dear MyPE The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality under the leadership of Athol Trollip and the previous DA-led coalition government is the only metro in the country that improved its score on the South African customer satisfaction index (SA-csi) barometer in 2018. This week a Businesstech report on the "Best and Worst Municipalities in South Africa 2018” identified NMB as the only metro to show any improvement The only metro to have increased its SA-csi score in 2018 is Nelson Mandela … [Read more...] about DA-led NMB only metro to have increased resident satisfaction