The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is grappling with a mounting backlog of applications for the assistance to the poor (ATTP) programme as scores of residents await registration.
A gunfight between rival gangs outside a clinic ended in the killing of a suspected gangster, while another reputed gang member was chased inside a second healthcare facility and stabbed to death.
While the metro battles the plague of illegal dumping, children from KwaNobuhle decided at the weekend to jump in and make a difference by cleaning their community.
Five men alleged to be behind the mass killings in KwaNobuhle, which saw nine people mowed down in one day, abandoned their bids for bail on Wednesday.