Mount Croix News Today

The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has announced that a 48-hour water shutdown will be required from Tuesday after a burst cross connection on the bulk pipeline was identified on the Churchill system.

Tributes are pouring in for Algoa Bus chief executive the Rev Sicelo Duze, an influential figure in business and religion, after his sudden death at the weekend.

Within hours of contractors bricking up problem buildings in Central last week, vagrants knocked out the bricks and cement and reclaimed the derelict structures from which they had been evicted.

Though the first day of the academic year brought a jubilant atmosphere to most schools across Nelson Mandela Bay, recurring problems including overcrowding and vandalism were experienced in the northern areas and townships.

Three Belgian women visiting Gqeberha were robbed of their belongings on Saturday.

Not only brothers in name, they were also brothers in arms in business in an alleged “well-oiled” machine set up to pilfer millions of rand meant to be used for the Bay’s beleaguered Integrated Public Transport System (IPTS).

A self-proclaimed AmaMfengu tribal leader, King Bantu “Mthimkhulu” Ntuntwana, is fighting to reclaim land situated in some of Nelson Mandela Bay’s most affluent suburbs.

As part of the city’s drought intervention efforts, the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is developing the groundwater system.

The husband of a young woman, arrested after she allegedly lied to the police about her baby being kidnapped, said his wife was never pregnant.

A 23-year-old Eastern Cape woman has appeared in court for perjury after she allegedly reported a false case of kidnapping claiming her newborn baby was abducted from a local hospital.