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Gqeberha businessman fights âimpossibleâ municipal water bill of R1.5m (opens the original)
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A Gqeberha businessmanâs monthly water bill rocketed from R300 to R1.5m. He is now demanding full accountability from the municipality for what he calls systematic billing exploitation. A 74-year-old Gqeberha businessman has spent months fighting a municipal water bill that ballooned to more than R1.5-million â an amount he says is impossible for his household. Despite the municipality applying a credit to slash the debt from R1,565,385.60 to roughly R30,000, Adriaan Smuts is refusing to pay
Gayton McKenzie promises debt write-offs and an âAbahambeâ crackdown in Nelson Mandela Bay (opens the original)
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With the 2026 local elections approaching, PA leader Gayton McKenzie says voters should give his party five years to govern Nelson Mandela Bay, promising a fresh approach to the metroâs debt, jobs, services and immigration. Patriotic Alliance mayoral hopeful Bradley Murray, a former Nelson Mandela Bay mayoral committee member responsible for roads and transport, has sworn to write off municipal debt for households with properties worth R1-million or less, and promised a hardline crackdown on f
Suspended Nelson Mandela Bay city manager paid R6.7m as disciplinary case returns to square one (opens the original)
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Nelson Mandela Bayâs disciplinary hearing against suspended city manager Noxolo Nqwazi was terminated after procedural failures â she has drawn R6.7-million in salary while on suspension. More than two years after the suspension of Nelson Mandela Bay City Manager Noxolo Nqwazi, her disciplinary case has run aground. The chairperson of her disciplinary committee terminated the hearing after finding that the municipality had failed to properly constitute it. Nqwazi has continued to draw her sa
Want our votes? Adopt our Rebuild Plan, NMB civil society tells political parties (opens the original)
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Nelson Mandela Bay civil society unveils an 18âmonth Rebuild Plan demanding measurable fixes, public monitoring and a formal oversight role â and will condition votes on delivery. Whoever takes control of Nelson Mandela Bay after the local government elections on 4 November will inherit a metro in desperate need of repair â and civil society has laid out what it expects the new administration to do. The Nelson Mandela Bay Civil Society Coalition, made up of business leaders, church represe
âWe are South Africanâ: Imtiaz Sooliman urges citizens to take ownership of their country (opens the original)
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In a conversation at The Gathering held in memory of Estelle Ellis, Gift of the Givers founder Dr Imtiaz Sooliman reflected on the journalist who kept calling when people needed help â and on the ordinary South Africans he believes are still capable of changing their country. The calls from Daily Maverick journalist Estelle Ellis were rarely casual. When a crisis was unfolding in Nelson Mandela Bay or elsewhere in the Eastern Cape, Ellis would call Gift of the Givers founder Dr Imtiaz Sooliman
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