Hiring trucks, buying refuse bags and employing 500 unemployed people through the Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP). This is how the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality hopes to tackle illegal dumping and littering in the city, with a focus on townships and the northern areas.
Residents not billed for water and electricity, no proper records of property and equipment and unauthorised expenditure amounting to R1.4bn. These are some of the reasons why the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has been slapped with another qualified audit opinion by Eastern Cape auditor-general Shereen Noble.