Chemical toilets provided to the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality for several communities are in an unsanitary state due to an infestation of maggots and flies after not being cleaned as the contracted company claims it is owed R15m.
Residents and visitors to Nelson Mandela Bay will be left high and dry this summer season, with the majority of municipal swimming pools having to remain shut because the facilities are dilapidated, with some in a state of disrepair.
Gqeberha residents are pulling together to restore a busy but once gracious thoroughfare in Richmond Hill that has been brought to the brink by criminals, drug addicts, rogue tenants and tonnes of rat-infested rubbish and excrement.
Only five out of a fleet of 49 refuse collection trucks are operational, with the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality having to fork out an extra R60m to hire private trucks to keep the city clean.