The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has defended the service provider that provided the meal at Thursday’s council meeting which resulted in multiple councillors suffering bad cases of diarrhoea.
The UDM is hoping for a resurgence in the upcoming national and provincial elections feeding off an electorate tired of corruption with a focus on a back-to-basics campaign, and a concerted effort to mobilise the youth.
UDM leader Bantu Holomisa has accused finance minister Enoch Godongwana of impeding the formation of a task team to assist apartheid-era civil servants who worked in the homelands and were cheated out of their pension money. Holomisa spoke in a podcast interview with DispatchLIVE on Friday afternoon after concluding his two-day “presidential visit” to the Eastern Cape.
After voicing concerns about the quality of Buffalo City Metro’s tap water over the Easter weekend, ratepayers in parts of Mdantsane will have to wait another week to receive clean water.