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The Hawks are investigating a case of fraud after Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Gary van Niekerk enlisted the services of legal firm Boqwana Burns Incorporated (BBI) in 2022 while his position as councillor was up in the air.

Though he was not the speaker of the Nelson Mandela Bay council for five months in 2022, National Alliance president Gary van Niekerk used the official letterhead and signatory of the office to appoint a law firm and rack up R551,586 worth of legal bills.

A romantic anniversary celebration on the Gqeberha beachfront, retracing the steps of their first date a year ago, turned into a couple’s worst nightmare when they found themselves staring down the barrels of several guns in an armed robbery on the Shark Rock Pier.

Amid a tense council meeting beset with delays caused by bickering and frivolous points of order, Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Gary van Niekerk survived a motion of no confidence on Tuesday night.

Survivors and relatives of those who lost their lives during the Northern Areas uprising have called for provincial or even national recognition of the massacre.

Nelson Mandela Bay is at risk of losing its blue flag status if the beachfront is not given a facelift before the next assessment, which takes place ahead of the summer season.

Through a district development model, the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality hopes to transform the metro into a service and economic development destination as it strives to fulfil its 2050 One Plan commitments by implementing catalytic projects and harnessing promised funding of R14.6bn.

With no agreement in place, the new coalition hit a stumbling block on Monday when a briefing to announce Nelson Mandela Bay’s newest mayoral committee was cancelled moments after it was meant to begin.

The EFF has scored two mayoral committee positions in Nelson Mandela Bay, marking the party's first entrance into governance in the troubled Eastern Cape metro. 




A group of smaller parties in the Nelson Mandela Bay coalition are convinced they have done enough groundwork to convince at least three other parties not to sign a new petition that will seek to call a meeting to try to oust the city’s political leadership.