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Reeston residents blockaded sections of the Mdantsane Access road — also known as Black Road — to protest against an increase in taxi fares on Wednesday morning. Burning tyres, wood and planks were placed across the road as about 70 protesters halted morning commuters in an outcry over a R5 taxi fare increase they said they were not warned of.
Despondent and frustrated, Nelson Mandela Bay ward councillors find themselves grappling daily with unresolved service delivery issues, with their pleas for action through WhatsApp messages to officials frequently going unanswered.
Black people need to banish the idea that they can develop South Africa without white, coloured and Indian people, says KwaZulu-Natal ANC ward 11 branch chairperson Duduzane Zuma.
While President Cyril Ramaphosa is mum on who will be named electricity minister, speculation is rife that head of infrastructure in the presidency Kgosientso Ramokgopa is likely to be appointed.
Thousands of calls by Nelson Mandela Bay ratepayers trying to report service delivery issues to the municipal call centre are being ignored by the staff.