Chatty River News Today

Family, friends, residents and politicians gathered in Timothy Valley, Nelson Mandela Bay, on Thursday to mourn the death of nine-year-old Romario Jordan Williams whose body was discovered in a dam at Van Der Kemp’s Kloof.

The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is to pursue the alleged transgression of a land use bylaw against a Parsons Vlei sand and stone quarry while the department of water & sanitation will investigate the legality of the operation. The two authorities were responding to concerns about the mine owned by Metro Quarries which was approved by the department of mineral resources & energy and energy (DMRE) nearly a decade ago.

Electricity meters: Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality warns of fines of up to R8,000 for using izinyoka connections.

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced in July that his rubbish removal foray at Veeplaas was the start of a huge campaign to clean up Nelson Mandela Bay, and SA.

Illegal connections spread across the Chatty River have resulted in the electrocution of several Kliprand informal settlement residents.

Nelson Mandela Bay’s water crisis may have grabbed headlines around SA as Gift of the Givers drilled boreholes and residents prepared for day zero, but for the first time on Monday, President Cyril Ramaphosa finally came to see things for himself.

Maverick Citizen asked about the recent extended water outage in Nelson Mandela Bay after a ‘full-scale investigation’ was promised, but despite giving officials close to a week to respond, none of our queries was answered.