Ward 43 News Today

Salem: The residents of ward 43 on Tuesday urged the Salem Municipal Corporation (SMC) to provide them basic amenities, including a new tar road, and .

Eight bodies, one shooting rampage within minutes of another — violence in KwaNobuhle outside Kariega scaled terrifying new heights on Thursday.

An angry crowd gathered outside a KwaNobuhle man’s locked house and threatened to burn it down, with him and his family inside, unless he handed himself over.

A price tag of R150,000 has been placed on the head of Northern Alliance president Gary van Niekerk, who has been forced into hiding.

Not a single person has been arrested in any of the cases involving the attacks on ANC leaders in Nelson Mandela Bay.

The investigation into the brazen killings and attempted murders of ANC officials in Nelson Mandela Bay has been escalated to the police’s top brass, with the elite Provincial Organised Crime Unit now hunting those responsible.

Allegations that a bodyguard was brandishing an automatic firearm at a voting station where KwaNobuhle’s Ward 43 by-election is set to take place on Wednesday will be probed by the electoral commission.

Only 68 of 902 registered voters who applied for special votes cast their votes for the Ward 43 by-election on Tuesday, IEC Bay manager Crosby Bacela said.

The ANC in Kariega has turned to the church for help to deal with political killings and gender-based violence in Nelson Mandela Bay.

AIM councillor and economic development political head Khusta Jack will reveal his decision on whether he is leaving the coalition that governs Nelson Mandela Bay on Friday.