Ward 60 News Today

A transformer in Wells Estate was disconnected on Tuesday by an angry mob, plunging the Motherwell community into darkness.

Pupils and teachers from half a dozen Wells Estate and Motherwell nursery schools staged a protest march on Monday to raise awareness about the violence experienced by children in the Gqeberha township.

Days after chaos erupted in a Wells Estate informal settlement, with a 12-year-old boy shot dead and about 20 shacks burned to the ground, a ward committee member took to the dock on Monday as the alleged ringleader behind the violence.

Marking one week since little Nakane Lizani’s disappearance in Wells Estate, the police and residents braved wet conditions to embark on a mass search.

Low-hanging and ground-running electricity cables will hopefully be a thing of the past for Elephant Park informal settlement residents where more than 700 households received light from the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality on Wednesday.

For the ANC to last forever, members must protect it and reignite the hope that the public once had in it.

Those driving in Nelson Mandela Bay are in for a bumpy ride as they are forced to swerve around cavernous potholes or risk damaging their vehicles.