Broken toilets, cracked floor boards and no running water pupils at David Livingstone Secondary School are forced to urinate on the grass or ask nearby residents if they can use their bathrooms.
Though the avian flu sweeping SA has not yet hit the Eastern Cape, stores are already feeling the knock-on effect of restricted supplies of eggs and chickens and are being forced to pass on price increases to consumers.
Sardinia Bay residents who moved to the area years ago because of its tranquillity are upset that recent bulldozing to clear bush and trees to make way for modern establishments is displacing wildlife and disrupting their peace.
An ailing woman who uses an oxygen machine to survive, and relies on Eskom’s power grid to keep it going, is desperate for intervention, so much so that she ended up sleeping at a Nelson Mandela Bay police station this week to use its electricity.
A Nelson Mandela Bay official and a businessman appeared in court on Friday after they were arrested for allegedly defrauding the municipality out of more than R2m in connection with a 2016 tender for the supply, installation and maintenance of air conditioners.