Michael Kimberley
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‘I am number 1’: Lungisa rejects rival party’s seat offer (opens the original)
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A political party has offered ANC heavyweight Andile Lungisa a place on its PR election list after the list submitted to the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) did not contain his name. On Tuesday, Lungisa emphatically declined the political lifeline, saying he is firmly on the ANC list and remains a mayoral candidate in Nelson Mandela Bay. The offer comes amid an ANC candidate-list fiasco in which Lungisa was among several senior party figures left off the proportional representation (P
Say sorry or face legal action, ‘Khusta’ tells mayor (opens the original)
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Abantu Integrity Movement (AIM) leader Mkhuseli “Khusta” Jack has demanded a public apology and retraction from Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Babalwa Lobishe over remarks he says falsely linked him to the deaths and disappearances of his comrades during apartheid. His attorneys have given Lobishe until noon on Wednesday to apologise and retract the remarks publicly, warning that failure to do so could result in urgent legal proceedings, an interdict and a claim for damages. Lobishe could not be reach
Power play as company eyes AI data hub at Coega (opens the original)
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A proposed hyperscale data-centre campus at Coega could generate employment opportunities and an estimated R895m a year in municipal property rates, but a row has broken out over the huge amount of electricity needed to make it happen. On the one hand, Vexa Infrastructure told the Nelson Mandela Bay council on Thursday that the project would not be commercially viable if it had to buy electricity from the metro rather than becoming a direct Eskom customer. This was because the hub could not depe
Metro rejects Treasury’s R23bn write-off objection (opens the original)
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The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has pushed back against the National Treasury’s rejection of its proposed write-off of R23bn in historic unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure (UIFWE). The municipality insists the money is now legally irrecoverable because the metro failed to pursue it timeously. In a strongly-worded response to the Treasury, acting city manager Lonwabo Ngoqo said the municipality stood by its position that UIFWE recorded up to June 30 2021, dating back
Treasury slams brakes on Bay’s R23bn write-off plan (opens the original)
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The National Treasury has rejected the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality’s proposed blanket write-off of R23bn in unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, warning that the process is legally defective. In a strongly worded letter to the municipality, the Treasury said it could not support the metro’s conclusion that all the flagged expenditure incurred up to June 30 2021 had prescribed, insisting that each item must first be assessed on its own facts. The Treasury’s intergovern
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