Anc Ward News Today

Reeston residents blockaded sections of the Mdantsane Access road — also known as Black Road — to protest against an increase in taxi fares on Wednesday morning. Burning tyres, wood and planks were placed across the road as about 70 protesters halted morning commuters in an outcry over a R5 taxi fare increase they said they were not warned of.

Despondent and frustrated, Nelson Mandela Bay ward councillors find themselves grappling daily with unresolved service delivery issues, with their pleas for action through WhatsApp messages to officials frequently going unanswered.

Black people need to banish the idea that they can develop South Africa without white, coloured and Indian people, says KwaZulu-Natal ANC ward 11 branch chairperson Duduzane Zuma.

While President Cyril Ramaphosa is mum on who will be named electricity minister, speculation is rife that head of infrastructure in the presidency Kgosientso Ramokgopa is likely to be appointed.

Thousands of calls by Nelson Mandela Bay ratepayers trying to report service delivery issues to the municipal call centre are being ignored by the staff.

Fixing six cemeteries, construction of a water treatment works, stormwater improvements and tarring gravel roads in 37 wards.These are some of the projects allocated funding from the R720m ward-based budget for the 2022/2023 financial year.

While they await the installation of a transformer to end their electricity plight, Rocklands farmers are offering to repair the redundant Rocklands police station.

What began with a phone call from an intuitive relative has become a campaign to positively affect the lives of young women and girls in disadvantaged Gqeberha communities.

Not a single person has been arrested in any of the cases involving the attacks on ANC leaders in Nelson Mandela Bay.