Politics

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula said Mchunu must focus his attention on the allegations against him.

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.

As the Gqeberha high court again seeks to uncover the circumstances surrounding Steve Biko’s death, heritage experts have criticised the city’s failure to recognise two key apartheid-era sites linked to the struggle icon’s final days.

The Eastern Cape experienced a significant rise in unemployment, bucking the national trend, with the rate increasing from 39.5% to 41.2% as 53,000 jobs were lost, largely in the manufacturing sector.

Cricket Eastern Cape has asked the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality to fork out R10.6m over two years and hand over two prime municipal properties — part of its pitch to secure World Cup hosting rights in 2027.

The Nelson Mandela Bay council has approved a new board for the Mandela Bay Development Agency (MBDA) comprising a mix of business, governance and arts heavyweights.

The Nelson Mandela Bay council delayed a decision on whether to approve a special water tariff dispensation for Orion Port Elizabeth, with councillors insisting on more information and raising concerns about the financial implications for the city’s 2025/

Ward 37 has become ground zero for new kid on the block Unite for Change, which hopes to shake things up in the Nelson Mandela Bay council after the 2026 local government elections.

Watching municipal trucks turning away as sewage flooded a park in Gqeberha prompted Ward 40 councillor Jason Grobbelaar to report a criminal complaint against the municipality for failing to deliver services.

Hundreds of temporary housing units built at the 1948 settlement in Walmer at a cost of R36m have been left vandalised and abandoned, with roofs, doors, and electrical fittings stripped — a year after Airport Valley residents were meant to move in

Nelson Mandela Bay may be bleeding millions of rand to more than 50 ghost employees as a result of weak internal controls.

Suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu said his request to stand down from his duties in the ANC was declined when he offered to secretary-general Fikile Mbalula to step aside.

EFF leader Julius Malema has praised the head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption, Andrea Johnson, for her bravery.

Seventeen months after it was damaged during the floods that claimed more than a dozen lives in Nelson Mandela Bay, the Matanzima Bridge in KwaNobuhle was officially reopened on Thursday. But before cutting the ribbon, the taxi industry asked Nelson Mande