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More than a year since the 2021 local government elections, some Buffalo City Metro ward councillors are still forced to operate from the boot of their cars because they have yet to be assigned offices. The DA’s leader in the BCM council, Sue Bentley, said the space issue had been a problem since the municipality became a metro.

True to his nature of putting others first, the last thing former National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson-turned-DA councillor Tsepo Ndwalaza said to his wife was “who is going to look after you now?”

TUPELO • Decades after a litany of issues led to the decline of a once booming commercial hub in a historically Black neighborhood in Tupelo, city officials and business owners

Fixing six cemeteries, construction of a water treatment works, stormwater improvements and tarring gravel roads in 37 wards.These are some of the projects allocated funding from the R720m ward-based budget for the 2022/2023 financial year.

While Gqeberha police hunt for the gunmen who killed two men and wounded a third on Tuesday night, the Airport Valley community continue to live in fear as crime escalates in the Walmer area.

TUEPLO• The Juneteenth Tupelo festival will take place June 18 at Gumtree Park with speakers, musicians and family fun, kicking off with a parade at noon and the main event

A string of suspected hit murders, bogus police and the closure of a police station in one of Gqeberha’s most violent and dangerous policing precincts has left residents of Walmer Township living in fear.

TUPELO • Tupelo officials have approved a Highland Circle resident to sit on the Major Thoroughfare Committee, filling one of two vacancies for Ward 4, which previously had no representation.

Tessa Botha, councillor of Buffalo City Metro’s ward 4 since 2016, believes the main issues facing her constituency are matters of service delivery and that include potholes, grass-cutting and bush-clearing, burst pipes, traffic and illegal dumping.

With the goal of helping move Jacksonville into the future, Brett Henry said he is...