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Imagine that you made a deal with your teenagers; “Tidy your room, make your bed, hang your clothes up and do your homework in order to receive your pocket money!” In my castle if they don’t do they don’t get. I am sure that you will agree with me. I dread the day that my …
I monitor the dam levels for Cape Town and Nelson Mandela Bay on a daily basis. If you are familiar with this proverb – “For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; and for why the horse was lost, the rider was lost,” which warns …
Remember that old saying; “Buy land, they don’t make it anymore”? Well, something similar applies to water too. Except that that one goes like this; “The utilities that lose the least amount of water during delivery are the ones that will thrive and remain profitable.” You Are Welcome! Related: Looming Bankruptcy for Global Water Utilities
Our friend Gayton does get around – in comparison Gary is a cattle class peasant – here Gayton Mckenzie speaks on Buying Flu Tablets in Japan (and trusting John Steenhuisen): https://youtu.be/0l7n6xKhwIU (or watch below). Gayton Mckenzie speech at the opening of the St Peters Precinct, South End, Gqeberha – September 2025. Don’t mess with Gary …
I came across an image in my archives titled ‘Supplying Water during recent shortage, April, 1912’ and ‘With Compliments from the Castle Brewery, Port Elizabeth’. So, here is a message to the MOANERS who yearn for the ‘Old Days’ – things were not THAT different then. The only thing that has changed these days is …
I read with growing disquiet today that Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront will soon offer a Superyacht Marina – as in this year! It is a well documented fact that Superyacht Owners are constantly seeking unique and affordable berths for their vessels. Many seek to winterise and maintain their vessels in secure facilities. Over the years …
Who, every day of their lives, have to report on the failings of the very institution that they represent. It must be so disheartening to report on failures day after day, month after month, year after year AND still draw a salary whilst waiting fearfully for some jumped up politician to look at you unfavourably …
As of late morning on June 30, 2026, there have been no reports of significant protest activity or incidents in the Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan area, including Gqeberha, Kariega, or Despatch. The Eastern Cape had been identified by law enforcement as a “minimal risk” zone in the lead-up to today’s nationwide demonstrations. While provincial authorities, …
Understanding the distinction between a Neighbourhood Watch (NHW) and a Community Policing Forum (CPF) is critical to navigating local safety and civic action in South Africa. While they frequently collaborate, they serve entirely different functional, legal, and operational purposes. In short: a CPF is a statutory oversight and community-liaison body attached to a police station, …
As the whole city wakes up to “One more sleep before March and March and we have no idea of how it will affect us or whether it will even be as terrifying for us as it must be for the foreigners in fear of their lives!” I posed the following questions to the Nelson …
As an attendee I can summarise the learnings as follows: There is only one central supplier database to register in countrywide: https://secure.csd.gov.za Make sure you complete all the fields If you are tendering in Nelson Mandela Bay make sure that your primary address is one in Nelson Mandela Bay Ensure that you tick your PRIMARY …
Whilst sitting at my Fathers Day luncheon at he Suki Restaurant in Walmer on Sunday I got lost in thought for a while. This after observing a large table of older Chinese couples just across the way from us. They were having a great time eating food and conversing. Apparently it is true – If …
ACDP Councillor Lance Grootboom said last night; “We spend R7.8-billion buying power from Eskom, but we only recover R6.9-billion. You are draining the hard-earned money of honest, paying citizens to cross-subsidise lawlessness! It is pure administrative failure.” He put it politely without pointing fingers at our present Lords (Ladies) and Masters. For once in your …
The refuge of the tongue tied – moaning about the state of our municipality – needs a little bit of balance… We decry the immense amount of potholes on our roads without thinking that just maybe those mini dams everywhere could be as the result of 80% of our council doing some forward planning. The …
My favourite question to ask the boys in my home is; “What do I hate?” To which they reply; “Being Right!” All those are in the context of decisions that they make on a daily basis that will influence just what type of men they will grow up to be. I couldn’t help but think …
This is in response to a video doing the WhatsApp rounds about why the SA Government is ‘ripping’ us off. The figures are presented as a ‘rip-off’ but with no suitable comparison to show if we are really being ripped off with onerous taxes. So I chose the one country that started all this colonial …
As a former member of the privileged class in South Africa I am going to be in trouble for saying this…. Dear Suburbs Dweller If you want a dose of reality away from that single pothole outside your home, that overlong grass in the park, that single streetlight that still works, that intermittent electricity and …
One of the things that I have always guarded against is in making comparisons between Cape Town and Nelson Mandela Bay. One always runs the risk of being seen as someone from the apartheid era whenever one points out the better management of anything in the city to the west of us. Throwing caution to …
Punitive Tariffs for the People, Impunity for the Municipality: An Unfair Trade Beyond the Meter: Why South Africa’s Water Tariff System Fails to Hold Municipalities Accountable The Missing Financial Link: Why Abstraction Limits Don’t Result in Municipal Penalties Systemic Inequality: Challenging the Fairness of Consumer-Focused Water Restrictions Oftentimes we accept the doings and screwings of …
The power of a meme is great and, sometimes, just soul destroying. I often think of how damaging a meme carrying elements of truth to demonstrate an untruth can live on and on – damaging people’s perceptions of others time and time again. We find a backlash against the ‘woke’ brigade and their ways of …
A mensch is a Yiddish term for a person of integrity, honour, and high character. Springbok U20 Coach, Kevin Foote and Springbok U20 Captain Riley Norton were both in Gqeberha for the TRC U20 Rugby Championships. The team played 3 Match Days over 3 weekends at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium against Australia, Argentina and …
South Africans are burdened with the legacy of apartheid and our language has moved with the times – but NOT in a good way. Many of us have moved from the outspoken racist comments and behaviour to more subtle comments and behaviour through the use of a language loosely termed ‘othering language’. Othering language is …
I recently posed this question to Google Gemini; “My tenant (a black man), in my presence (a white man) called his workers leaving at 5:00 pm back to my premises with a whistle and a shout as we needed their assistance. My neighbour (a white man) immediately called out; “We don’t live in the township!” …
On my WhatsApp group a resident dropped this comment; “Pity we have to other people’s loud music on a Sunday.” The message was referring to a loud music event taking place at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium yesterday. Now in South Africa we are all highly tuned to the possibility of racist or exclusionary speech …
Why we are all nearly buried at sea whether we like it or not! The Forest Hill Cemetery in Gqeberha was recently closed due to flooding raising the water table too high for burials to take place. Translation – dig a couple of feet and hit water. Now the run-off of that water from the …
Yes, I know that anyone with half a brain would not venture to the beach today, BUT the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has confirmed that all beaches are closed until further notice. No swimming, no diving, no traditional rituals, no Phuza Thursday topup. The swells in the bay are just under 6m high and, believe …
Both the Churchill and Kouga Dams are currently overflowing, and substantial rainfall has been recorded in the western dam catchments, an encouraging development. Ongoing updates on dam levels will continue to be shared. The Churchill Dam has a capacity of 35.240 Megalitres and on the 6th of May was 36.59% full with an extractable capacity …
Employers please stop and consider the real reasons why your employees came to work today after heavy rains and predictions of more accompanied by high winds. This morning in Nelson Mandela Bay roads were closed due to flooding, substations were tripping like junkies in a cocaine mine and people were mopping out their homes. And …
A video is circulating showing the disgusting state of the Glendinning Reservoir and in particular an unsecured structure on top of the reservoir site with a pipe/opening that is being used by people as a toilet. The comment was that if there is even a possibility that this opening connecting to water infrastructure supplying residents, …
It is well known that often a salary and wage increase could make you poorer due to bracket creep – that insidious little thing called inflation can actually make you pay more tax despite an increase. I recall the days when artisans were paid weekly and received their wages in a brown pay envelope. One …
