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It’s strike three for DA Eastern Cape leader Nqaba Bhanga after he drove into the back of fellow party member and Buffalo City councillor Fred Pohl’s vehicle while on a municipal oversight visit at Qonce on Friday.

It’s strike three for DA Eastern Cape legislature leader Nqaba Bhanga after he drove into the back of fellow party member and Buffalo City Metro councillor Fred Pohl’s car while on a municipal oversight visit at Qonce on Friday. Bhanga has now been involved in three vehicle accidents with varying degrees of severity, and there are signs senior DA leaders may no longer be enamoured with him.

Confident that the DA will take control of Nelson Mandela Bay through a new coalition government, Bhisho MPL Retief Odendaal has emerged as the party’s mayoral candidate while several parties will sign a coalition agreement on Thursday.

Talks to form a new government in Nelson Mandela Bay have advanced, with parties drawing up the first draft of a coalition agreement.

The DA is prepared to ask the courts to resolve uncertainty swirling around who is legally in charge of Nelson Mandela Bay’s administration.

The DA is reluctant to make a play to take control of Nelson Mandela Bay given uncertainty about the speaker position and an impasse on who controls the administration.

She was larger than life, yet incredibly humble, while her energy and unwavering optimism served as an inspiration to everyone around her.

And so, after retiring from politics for just more than two years, Athol Trollip has re-entered the political arena.

As the expanding backlog of cases revolving around forensic evidence continues to further frustrate victims of violent crime, some relief has been created with Gqeberha’s new forensic lab set to be completed by February 2023.

A DA councillor was allegedly held at gunpoint and party posters were stolen in separate incidents in Nelson Mandela Bay at the weekend.