Ward 35 News Today

EThekwini ratepayers associations feel “insulted” by the absence of mayor Mxolisi Kaunda in a budget consultation meeting to discuss the city’s proposed tariff hikes.

Two Nelson Mandela Bay families have been left devastated after a house was gutted, and a second damaged in a fire in Bethelsdorp, apparently linked to a temporary electricity connection installed by the municipality.

Frequent power outages from an unstable temporary connection forced a Bethelsdorp funeral parlour owner to ask his competitors to store bodies for him as his fridges were no longer cold enough.

Frequent power outages from an unstable temporary connection forced a Bethelsdorp funeral parlour owner to ask his competitors to store bodies for him as his fridges were no longer cold enough.

After a weeklong electricity outage affecting Ward 35 in Bethelsdorp, residents were horrified on Saturday when an electrical explosion in another street plunged the area further into darkness.

Retired Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Anne du Plessis never rested during her 15 years of service to the people of the northern areas, believing problems did not keep office hours.

Guardian angels who call themselves the Disaster Task Team, comprising 15 activists from the northern areas, are striving to rebuild homes lost in recent infernos.

After a stream of drinking water flowed down Heathcote Road in Bethelsdorp from a reservoir since February, the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality finally plugged the leak on Monday.

Not even graveyards are safe from vandals and vagrants, with the Bethelsdorp cemetery the latest to fall prey to a wave of vandalism that has gripped Nelson Mandela Bay.