Ward 53 News Today

City police commissioner V Balakrishnan made a sudden visit to inspect Uppilipalayam Ward 53 of the corporation’s east zone following concerns raised by the public regarding damaged roads in the locality.

It was a bleak Friday morning for residents of Ikamvelihle informal settlement in Motherwell when they returned to the scene of a fire that ravaged their homes on Thursday afternoon.

A mother and father watched helplessly from outside as their two-year-old son clung to the locked security gate at the door of their home and screamed “tata” as he burned to death.

Firefighters were called to the scene of a fire that engulfed multiple shacks at the Ikamvelihle informal settlement in Gqeberha on Thursday afternoon.

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.

Fifteen trucks and a private vehicle damaged and looted, and millions of rand lost, yet not a single one of Nelson Mandela Bay’s political leaders uttered a word publicly about the violent protests that have wreaked havoc in Motherwell for almost a week.

The ANC Johannesburg regional conference has again been postponed.