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The Nelson Mandlea Bay Metropolitan Municipality is divided into 60 Wards. Ward Councillor Candidates compete for votes in all 60 Wards. Your first vote is for your chosen Ward Councillor. Your second vote is for a party of your choice – a PR Councillor candidate is chosen per ward from this. Looking at the LGE …

There are three main role players in Community Safety: The Department of Community Safety – which plays a non-operational, supervisory, and social role in public safety and is responsible for Policy, Funding and Oversight. Unlike the South African Police Service (SAPS) or Metro Police, which are responsible for direct law enforcement, arrests, and criminal investigations, …

I thought that if I said X’able people may get the wrong idea… The State of the Metro Address last night, in Despatch, was a major, sold out hit, far bigger, and more important than anyone thought possible. It was really something, streaming all over the place, and really big numbers, despite going up against …

Those who know will attest to the fact that one of my idiot savant activities is to watch the Nelson Mandela Bay dam levels like a hawk. Of late the reported numbers coming out of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro web site have been slower than the time it takes to fix a pothole in …

I read with interest the letters on Facebook from politicians apologising for not attending Babalwa’s State of the Metro address in Despatch. The reasons given are all around cost to the ratepayer. Not one gives the real reason – they are afraid (jealous?) of the fact that this address is just a bit of political …

The DA in Nelson Mandela Bay will be announcing their plan to rebuild the Red Location Museum SUBJECT TO winning the Local Government Elections on 4 November 2026. Now – you may be thinking that someone now has a gun to their head – Vote DA or lose the Red Location Museum completely. According to …

One of the first jobs that a cub reporter was given in the old days was to write the obituary of a living person – mostly of famous people – and to keep that obituary updated until the day it was needed. Sometimes those obituaries leaked or were inadvertently published. So, I took my in-house …

So said the disabled person from the passenger seat of the vehicle I was blocking and forced to jump out of harms way. And why did it sink to this loaded question? Because I blocked the vehicle he was in from entering a disabled parking WITHOUT a sticker displaying his status. Now the law is …

Some countries fine citizens if they do not vote Why don’t we ‘incentivise’ citizens to vote Before we get to the nitty gritty of this premise let’s just clear the air of any misconceptions first: “I do NOT lean towards the CARROT over the STICK because I am vegan!” Positive Incentives: Governments around the world …

This article is based on the following observation: “The ANC retaining votes depends heavily on their Assistance to the Poor and Social Grants to their voter base. This, coupled with a widespread pattern of non-payment for municipal services and lax adherence to municipal by-laws has created an environment ‘encouraging’ the ANC’s traditional voter base to …

Analysing the historical trajectory of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality (NMBM) over the past two decades reveals a recurring political battleground where neither of the two major parties has been able to secure permanent, stable dominance. As the metro heads toward the 4 November 2026 Local Government Elections, the expected outcome points heavily toward …

  From 29 September to 2 October 2026, the global travel and hospitality industry is descending upon our home soil. The Skål International World Congress 2026 will gather hundreds of top-tier travel executives, tour operators, agency directors, and industry decision-makers from over 80 countries right here at the Boardwalk International Convention Centre in Nelson Mandela …

For me there are 4 sets of numbers driving the ANC’s continued success at the polls: Electricity Theft Assistance to the Poor Voter Statistics Social Grants What The Numbers Show Every single one of the people involved in the above numbers can be seen as a touchpoint (subscriber?) for the ruling government. Every single time …

There is a certain State Owned Company (SOE) that has been sending me information and enquiries related to their outstanding and ongoing accounts with a private business in Gqeberha. Luckily for this business I am acquainted with the owner and have kindly forward these e-mails on to him for the last 10 years. As an …

If one takes the trendline of Spar Shares from May 2024 (R149.87) to today 18 August 2026 (R41.42) one can clearly see that the trend is in a steady sharp decline. The SPAR Group Limited (trading under the ticker SPP on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange) reached its all-time high share price on 25 February 2018, …

Nelson Mandela Bay has had it’s fair share of woes and Municipal Managers since 2000. The Democratic Alliance intends laying criminal charges against 10 municipal managers from nine municipalities over repeated failures in financial management and accountability and the TOP TWO are from municipalities adjacent to ours: 1. Makana Local Municipality (Eastern Cape): Mr. Pumelelo …

Using public data supplied by NERSA I put the spreadsheet through the AI mill for a summary of the tariffs – ONLY for Domestic Credit (Conventional) meters on the highest scale. From that we developed: A table comparing the domestic electricity prices for all the major metropolitan municipalities in South Africa A summary of the …

The DA in Nelson Mandela Bay just successfully challenged and temporarily reversed the recent Electricity Hike. In the process we returned to the immoral and nonsensical (in normal business practice) IBT Tariffs. Today the DA are leading a protest in Motherwell against a reduction in the ATTP services that indigent households receive. Now, Listen Carefully: …

Seen in a bid document: “I, the bidder, certify that my company will not be using services or material coming from Israel.” The reason given for this 2024 decision was that a board ruling required the bid seeker to refrain from entering into business negotiations and/or contractual agreements with businesses and/or companies of Israeli origin …

Today the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality was ordered by the High Court to revert to the Inclining Block Tariff (IBT) applicable to qualifying domestic electricity consumers, subject to the regulatory approvals and implementation processes prescribed by the Court. Let us be BRUTALLY HONEST in examining this ‘victory’ against the ‘Cabal of Corruption’: It is in …

We all know the sensitivity surrounding trigger words as simple as ‘they’ or ‘them’. There is another set of words that triggers the tinkling of racism bells and they are contained in the unanswered question posed whenever the ANC is mentioned as being less than able to punch their way out of a wet paper …

With reference to the COURT CHALLENGE today against the increased electricity tariffs – I have one thing to say: If the complainants had read my 16 April 2026 article on this very same subject they could have brought the action BEFORE the implementation date. See: https://mynmb.co.za/the-most-significant-structural-shift-in-local-electricity-pricing-in-over-a-decade/ See the points at the top of the article …

The areas of lower Richmond Hill and Central are punch drunk and reeling from neglect and crime. Oftentimes we get a wake up call from people foreign to the area and you will be shocked and sad to see how one tourist observed this historical area of Gqeberha. This video – In Central They is …

With reference to the woes that News24 and friend Gary are going through at the moment… I want to relate two separate incidents that made me lose all trust in both of them. The first incident was when I lent my power bank and lightning cable to one of them. I was faithfully promised that …