Overgrown grass and weeds along traffic islands and verges as well as tree branches blocking road signs have become the scenery for Nelson Mandela Bay motorists travelling past most of the more than 1,500 open spaces in the metro.
While the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality cites old asbestos pipes as the root cause of constant leaks in Mosel in Kariega, residents have rightly questioned the efficiency and timeliness of the metro’s response.
Frustrated Mosel residents in Kariega say the Bay municipality’s negligence is turning their once-tidy suburb into an eyesore with trenches left open on nearly every corner.
As Nelson Mandela Bay residents celebrated the heavy downpour at the weekend, many still did not have a drop to drink due to infrastructure challenges which caused large parts of the city to go without water for days on end.
Fixing six cemeteries, construction of a water treatment works, stormwater improvements and tarring gravel roads in 37 wards.These are some of the projects allocated funding from the R720m ward-based budget for the 2022/2023 financial year.
The first water collection points in Nelson Mandela Bay are set to be activated on Saturday as the city’s long-threatened water crisis becomes reality.
While laying fibre cables near one of Kariega’s busiest roads, a group of workers discovered scattered skeletal remains buried a few metres underground along Daniel Pienaar Road.
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