Da Eastern Cape News Today

In Behind the Herald Headlines with Daron Mann, we catch up with DA Eastern Cape leader Andrew Whitfield, who says the party will spend the next few days driving home “our message of hope and our rescue plan to put SA back on a pathway to prosperity”.

The DA wants to sentence the ANC to life out of government after the elections for failing to fight crime, especially in Nelson Mandela Bay.

Neighbourhood watch groups in and around Malabar, Gqeberha, received some much-needed assistance when DA leaders joined them on a patrol of the area’s most vulnerable communities on Tuesday night.

The DA has written to premier Oscar Mabuyane asking for urgent intervention to repair rundownroads in the Eastern Cape. The official opposition wants Mabuyane to commit to shifting funds to urgently fix roads that lead to tourist destinations and farming communities.

By failing to enforce the problem building bylaws, the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has allowed Central and several of its historic buildings to deteriorate into disrepair.

As the general election draws closer, political parties have stepped up their campaigns in the province.While ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula wooed voters in the Dr WB Rubusana region in November, EFF leader Julius Malema rallied his troops through the party’s members forum at the Orient Theatre in East London early in December.

Former DA Eastern Cape leader and provincial caucus leader Nqaba Bhanga has been cagey about his future political home, but says he is committed to fighting for the people of Palestine.

Former DA Eastern Cape leader Nqaba Bhanga is adamant that he resigned from the party on Friday, but DA national spokesperson Solly Malatsi says he was expelled.

Nelson Mandela Bay residents flocked to voter registration stations at the weekend as they prepared to choose who they want to lead them in 2024.

Premier Oscar Mabuyane has opened up on his decision to move some of the province’s heads of department to a unit in his office, saying they would have faced “harsh consequence management” had they refused to be shunted.