With about 10,000 broken street lights in Nelson Mandela Bay, the municipality has started a programme to repair 3,000 of them and 1,000 high mast lights.
Crucial projects for some of the city’s poorest areas were sidelined while others gained more funding as the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality rejigged the 2023/2024 budget on a day that culminated in a fiery exchange between councillors.
Nelson Mandela Bay councillors have demanded a report on the alleged theft of truck tyres worth R5m after officials were unable to give detailed information about the matter.
With only a fraction of its capital budget spent since July, Nelson Mandela Bay’s infrastructure and engineering department will be left scrambling to spend the money in 2024 as service delivery projects have been put on the back burner.