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Mere days before the start of a new financial year on July 1, the Nelson Mandela Bay council adopted its 2022/2023 budget on Tuesday with the proposed tariff increases lowered a notch, bringing some much-needed relief to ratepayers.

Coalition talks to try take control of Nelson Mandela Bay are close to being revived after DA federal chair Helen Zille met several of the smaller parties again on Monday.

The threats made to councillors and officials that have forced the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality to hold a virtual council meeting on Tuesday to debate the 2022/2023 annual budget are shrouded in a veil of secrecy.

A plan to prevent taps from running dry across swathes of Nelson Mandela Bay by diverting millions of rand in budgeted funds and roping in outside experts was approved during a heated virtual council meeting on Tuesday.

So now the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality wants to insource meter readers. This, after the fiasco of the insourcing of security guards, which cost the municipality millions it could ill-afford and led to increased vandalism of municipal buildings.

The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is once again considering insourcing contract workers, but this time it is has to do with meter readings.

The EFF may have been removed from the National Assembly chamber on Thursday, but other opposition party leaders did not spare President Cyril Ramaphosa from questions about his game farm robbery in 2020.

With Nelson Mandela Bay’s ballooning debtors book jumping to R9bn, councillors have urged the municipality to drop the water tariffs a notch.

A few days after she was unceremoniously booted out of her job and immediately replaced, former city boss Noxolo Nqwazi has turned to the courts in the hope of overturning the Nelson Mandela Bay council’s decision.

Nelson Mandela Bay’s new city manager brings his own controversial baggage to the job after being fired in Bitou several years ago, along with his sudden resignation from the same Garden Route municipality in 2021.