Bay Eff News Today

After years of facing evictions and pleading for water and electricity, residents of the Bayland informal settlement could be in line for basic services thanks to the EFF.

Twenty Nelson Mandela Bay councillors owed the municipality a total of R410,142 for municipal rates and services that were more than three months overdue when the past financial year wrapped up.

As the family of slain Olwethu Gaju waited for her former boyfriend and suspected murderer, Xolisa Tyombo, to make his court appearance last week, they were shocked to find that he had fled to Cape Town despite being put under house arrest.

The appointment of Nelson Mandela Bay City manager Dr Noxolo Nqwazi during a chaotic council meeting in March was the culmination of fraudulent activity with speaker Gary van Niekerk misrepresenting the vote count.

For a third time in seven years, the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality wants to relaunch the one-stop shop, a facility where businesses and potential investors can get advice on incentives.

A racially-charged poster, missing Facebook pages, boundary changes, attempts to join forces and a scolding online — campaigning in Gqeberha’s northern areas is heating up as several parties battle it out for crucial votes ahead of the municipal elections.