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With SA commemorating Freedom Day, the DA in the Eastern Cape saw little to celebrate, citing the nation’s deepening economic and leadership crisis.

The DA has delivered its own ‘State of the Metro Address’ for Nelson Mandela Bay, after Executive Mayor Eugene Johnson failed to deliver one, with the party’s mayoral candidate, Retief Odendaal, giving a damning assessment of service delivery failure and maladministration under Johnson an...

A planning session behind closed doors at Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Eugene Johnson’s office at City Hall was the order of the day on Tuesday in response to a tense community meeting at Ankervas Primary School near Rocklands earlier in the week.

With each mayoral committee member having declared themselves ‘mayor’, the Nelson Mandela Bay metro was plunged into what the MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Xolile Nqatha, described as ‘lawlessness and chaos’ in the ANC-led coalition government.

At a cost of R2.9m a year, 12 of the political appointees in Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Eugene Johnson’s office spend their days walking the streets looking for water leaks.

DA federal council chair Helen Zille has questioned the logistics behind the installation of communal taps around Nelson Mandela Bay and says long queues and conflict will likely crop up.

DA Federal Council chairperson Helen Zille confirmed on Wednesday that she will be trying to ‘put together a 10-party coalition’ in Nelson Mandela Bay as the city prepares for an unprecedented disaster when dams start to run dry mid-June. This comes as Treasury and the Water and Sanitation...

The DA is keen to share the expertise and experience it gained overcoming the 2017-2018 drought in Cape Town with the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, but the metro has to be willing to accept it, party leader John Steenhuisen said.

Large parts of Nelson Mandela Bay ran dry on Wednesday and water pressure was much reduced in other parts after the metro was hit by a series of system failures and pipe bursts. On Wednesday night, the local business chamber called for a halt to political instability that was destroying the met...

The water supply is due to run out in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro, but no one has closed the tap on political bickering.