SOMA Solutions Accelerating Digital Solutions Amidst COVID-19: Midrand, Johannesburg, 23 December 2020 – Soma Solutions has just launched two new digital platforms called Edu-Supply, a platform designed to help schools and parents save time and money when shopping for stationery, and SmartSaver, an online goal-based saving platform created to inspire communities to save and achieve their short-term and long-term financial goals. Through these platforms, Soma Solutions aims to showcase the … [Read more...] about SOMA Solutions Accelerating Digital Solutions Amidst COVID-19 – MyPR.co.za
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NMBM Executive Mayor, Athol Trollip delivering his SOMA speech [video]
Visit and explore more Port Elizabeth videos. Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Executive Mayor, Athol Trollip, on Thursday delivered his State of the Metro Address, at the Ernest Swanepoel Hall in Despatch, in line with the Metro's commitment to taking governance closer to the residents. His SOMA comes one year after a Democratic Alliance (DA)-led coalition government booted out the African National Congress (ANC) after a surprise result in the 2016 Local Government elections. In his … [Read more...] about NMBM Executive Mayor, Athol Trollip delivering his SOMA speech [video]
SOMA 2017
Full State of the Metro Address by Executive Mayor Cllr Athol Trollip. The SOMA 2017 address was held in the Ernst Swanepoel Hall, Despatch on Thursday, 17 August 2017 from 10h00. Speaker Members of the Mayoral Executive and Coalition Partners Members of Parliament, Provincial Legislature Councillors Religious Leaders Business Leaders City Manager and all Executive Directors present Honoured guests Members of the media Ladies and gentlemen Good morning to all of you on this … [Read more...] about SOMA 2017
Soma Sommer cancelled
Dear MyPE It comes as no surprise that Mayor Jordaan has indefinitely cancelled his State of the Metro Address, given the growing list of ANC broken promises in Nelson Mandela Bay. In light of the fact that NMB has the highest unemployment rate of any South African Metro at 36.6%, as well as drastically declining levels of service delivery, we need bold and decisive leadership from the Mayor. Instead the people of NMB are left counting his broken and empty promises. The new ANC … [Read more...] about Soma Sommer cancelled
Executive Mayor’s Full State Of The Metro Address
On 11 April 2014 the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitam Mayor, addressed invited guests and media, in the Feathermarket Hall, on the State of the Metro. This is his full unabridged speech: (Click here to rate the SOMA Address) Good Evening, Molweni, Goeienaand Firstly, I wish to pay tribute to a hero and heroine of the struggle who passed on yesterday. I refer to Mrs Mthimkulu, the mother of the former leader of the Congress of South African Students, Siphiwo Mthimkulu, and Oom Joe … [Read more...] about Executive Mayor’s Full State Of The Metro Address
Business, religious and other civil society groups urged to speak out against ‘Metro Feast’
The DA in Nelson Mandela Bay calls on all forces of opposition to extravagant expenditure, maladministration and electioneering at the expense of the public purse to stand up and oppose tonight's 'The State of the Metro Feast'. The Nelson Mandela Bay Metro has not hosted such an address in this current term of office due to austerity measures. What has changed? We remain constrained by austerity yet we justify a feast at rate payers' expense three weeks before the national election. The DA … [Read more...] about Business, religious and other civil society groups urged to speak out against ‘Metro Feast’
State of the Metro feast – a bad story to tell
The DA in Nelson Mandela Bay will not attend the more than R300 000 'State of the Metro Address and Feast' on Friday. The timing of this event on the eve of elections is suspicious and the expenditure is unconscionable. This smoke and mirrors event is symptomatic of the extravagance of Jacob Zuma's ANC and is nothing more than an attempt by the ruling party to find "good stories" to tell just weeks before the election. Why can the Council not engage stakeholders and communities through the … [Read more...] about State of the Metro feast – a bad story to tell
State of the Metro Address
This year, 2014 South Africa celebrates 20 years of democracy. This gives us as a people an opportunity to reflect on the progress that government has made and challenges experienced since 1994. It gives us an opportunity to reflect honestly in order to be able to acknowledge the areas where government has excelled and take note of the areas of that need improvement. It is for these and many reasons that we see it fit that as a country we celebrate and reflect on this remarkable achievement … [Read more...] about State of the Metro Address
