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It takes a village to raise a child.That was the message of the day at the homecoming ceremony for 35 Gqeberha initiates who returned home from initiation school on Wednesday.

Just two days back in the job and city manager Noxolo Nqwazi is already causing a stir among partners of the coalition running the Nelson Mandela Bay metro.

Electric solutions provider Maritz Electrical has set up shop in Gqeberha.

The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality’s employment equity plan took centre stage at a mayoral committee meeting on Wednesday after GOOD councillor Lawrence Troon made a passionate plea to review the document.

Forcing aside a municipal official to access her laptop at the Gqeberha City Hall, ANC councillor Noxolo Koko disconnected several councillors from a hybrid council meeting on Friday, including mayor Retief Odendaal.

Mkhuseli “Khusta” Jack will remain at the helm of his party Abantu Integrity Movement (AIM) until he hands over the reins to a younger leader “in the future”.

Nelson Mandela Bay businesses have warned of severe repercussions as a strike at SA’s ports gets under way.

A new multiparty coalition in Nelson Mandela Bay that managed to boot out the ANC-led coalition of Executive Mayor Eugene Johnson last week has set out its priorities to ‘get the city working again’, giving a damning analysis of a broken metro.

Nelson Mandela Bay Deputy Mayor Mkhuseli Jack is backing Mmusi Maimane's new political party, Build One South Africa, to help build a similar push for power last seen with the United Democratic Front during apartheid.

With just 90 minutes of shut-eye, Retief Odendaal was in the mayor’s chair by 9am on Thursday after a marathon council meeting that ended in the early hours of the morning.