Despite the municipality’s push to relieve the Mandela Bay Development Agency of its Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium duties, the agency has pulled in R21m in revenue from events and sports fixtures between the start of the 2023/2024 financial year and June.

The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has reported an extortion attempt to police after contractors repairing a major sewage spill in Kuyga were allegedly targeted.

Nelson Mandela Bay’s specialised rapid-response unit is down to only one operational vehicle to respond to priority and serious crimes in progress.

The National Treasury has warned that Nelson Mandela Bay risks losing its December grant allocation if it fails to address the historic R30bn in unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure (UIFW) — the highest of any municipality in SA.

Gqeberha business Sweet Thing Meringues, owned by Julie Coetzee and Briony Sparg, won the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber Entrepreneurship Desk competition, earning R50,000.

Factionalism within the ANC threatens its control in Nelson Mandela Bay, as internal conflicts over positions and access to resources weaken party structures in the Eastern Cape.

The ANC in Nelson Mandela Bay is determined to hold its regional elective conference before the end of November.

Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Neville Higgins, facing corruption charges, has been appointed to lead the city's sport, recreation, arts, and culture portfolio, replacing Sinebhongo Kwatsha.

If murder accused businessman Theo Gora had “done what any ordinary citizen would have done” and rushed the teenager he allegedly struck with his car to the hospital, the young man’s life might have been saved.

Plagued by theft and vandalism, the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality plans to allocate R2.4m this financial year to complete the fencing of the city’s cable yard — a project launched last year to address serious safety risks at the facility.