Local government in the Eastern Cape is festered with fraudulent and fruitless and wasteful expenditure. In a written response to a parliamentary question, it emerged that 21 municipalities incurred fruitless and wasteful expenditure while 13 others incurred some fraud activity in the 2009/10 financial year. The combined amount of the fraud and waste was a [...]

DA REPLY TO STATE OF PROVINCE ADDRESS BY PREMIER KIVIET –CADRE DEPLOYMENT: Honourable Speaker, Honourable Premier, Members of the Executive Committee, Honourable MPL’s, Officials, media and guests – good day.Since 1994, South Africa has become a better place to live in. Government has made enormous progress in improving the life of thousands of people in [...]

The Eastern Cape Department of Local Government is to appoint service providers to further delay findings on municipal corruption by the Special Investigation Unit (SIU). The municipalities of Koukamma, Kouga, Alfred Nzo and Sundays River Valley were fingered by the SIU for investigation — a process that started some 18 months ago.

THE author of the letter “Do something to improve declining city, Bay residents” (The Herald, January 28), D M Calder, is quite correct when stating metro residents must “just do it”. Every citizen of the metro can change the current inept ANC-run council by voting for the DA in the local government elections. The DA [...]

The Provincial Housing dDepartment and the Housing Development Association (HDA) have betrayed the trust and hopes of Jacksonville housing beneficiaries in the Nelson Mandela Metro. As recently reported, these beneficiaries were given cards with allocated erf numbers for houses in Chatty Extention 12 in the Metro.

“Sending Sohena to the Mbhashe Municipality indicated a dire shortage of suitably qualified municipal managers in the province.” — Dacre Haddon FORMER Nelson Mandela Bay human resources business unit manager Siphiwo “Speech” Sohena has been appointed to yet another senior municipal post in the Eastern Cape, despite his controversial past. Sohena – who authorised the [...]

DESPITE the matter of Buffalo City becoming a metro being gazetted in Gazette no 2494 of December 24, 2010, there are concerns that the process is flawed and many stakeholders claim they have not been given the opportunity to discuss this matter at public forums. While it is inevitable that Buffalo City will obtain metro [...]

Confusion reigned in the Nelson Mandela municipality after residents discovered that most municipal customer service centres were closed. The explanation was that the mayor had declared January 3 a “public holiday” for municipal employees. “This is totally inappropriate from the cost point of view, especially given the fact that the Nelson Mandela municipality is in [...]