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Lack of maintenance highlighted by electricity and water outages in Nelson Mandela Bay
The current power and water outage crisis in Nelson Mandela Bay highlights the critical impact of the lack of adequate maintenance of the metro’s electricity and water infrastructure over many years, and the impact it has on the lives of communities and b
Prepare for wild ride in 2026 with global and local headwinds
Just a fortnight into the new year and it’s clear that Flight 2026 needs to come with an upgraded safety briefing and a warning label.
Tourism in NMB is everyone’s business
Nelson Mandela Bay’s peak tourism season is upon us — and we know from recent media reports and just by looking at the state of the metro around us, that our state of readiness is, at best, uneven.
It’s time to stand up for Nelson Mandela Bay and to set higher standards
Windy, armpit, ghost on the coast, backwater – Nelson Mandela Bay has had many insults thrown at it over the years, and yet this metro remains a desirable place to live and do business.
Automotive industry can help reboot SA’s industrial growth
SA Automotive Week comes to Nelson Mandela Bay this week from Wednesday to Friday, marking 90 years of South African automotive manufacturing in the birthplace of an industry now facing arguably the most severe set of threats to its existence.
Nelson Mandela Bay has all the ingredients to succeed — we need to make it work
Business in Nelson Mandela Bay faces an unprecedented array of threats to survival; unprecedented in scale as well as in the sheer number of challenges to be faced simultaneously.
Saving manufacturing in NMB is critical to every business’s economic future
The clock is ticking; with just hours left until the potential imposition of a 30% import tariff on SA goods entering the US market.
Thinking local will help grow Nelson Mandela Bay economy and create jobs
Globalisation of economies and manufacturing supply chains is a reality which is here to stay, but as much as we seek to be a globally-connected economy we have to ensure that Nelson Mandela Bay remains a site of local manufacturing by multinational players as that is the anchor which creates much-needed local jobs.
Nelson Mandela Bay taking the lead in plotting future of SA auto manufacturing
The SA automotive industry’s two most significant international events will be hosted in Nelson Mandela Bay this year, underscoring not only our leading role in history and the present day as the anchor of local automotive manufacturing — but also our future as an automotive hub in Africa.
Need to develop skills for digitally driven future in Nelson Mandela Bay
It was estimated as far back as 2017 that 85% of the jobs that will exist in 2030 have not even been invented yet.
