The Office of the Premier has confirmed receiving the Kenton-on-Sea Ratepayers Association’s January 30 request to have Ndlambe placed under administration. However, it says, the province’s intervention in terms of Section 139 is not…
Defaulting holiday home owners are in Ndlambe’s sights this December. Municipal officials have sounded their first salvo as the festive season approaches. With debt collection company Revco off the municipality’s books, securing and…
PIET MARAIS Ndlambe Municipality last week formally responded to the extensive public comments, 92 in total, submitted by the Kenton-on-Sea Rate Payers Association (KOSRA) regarding the Draft Integrated Development Plan (IDP) and Budget…
Renewable energy and sustainable technologies were a focus at the last full Ndlambe council meeting. The administration was put under pressure to explain itself in two experimental projects – one under way but stalled and the other…
The double-subsidisation of two December 2024 music festivals costing ratepayers R700 000 each reared its head again in a special council meeting last Friday when the municipality’s adjustment budget was tabled and passed. The adjustment…
PIET MARAIS The Kenton-on-Sea Ratepayers Association (KOSRA) have threatened legal action following ongoing water shortages in wards 3 and 4. And at a political level, the DA has vowed to escalate the matter. Both have accused the…
Ndlambe Municipality hosted the Eastern Cape edition of the Special National Women’s Commission (SWC) Lekgotla of the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), at the Royal St Andrews Hotel on Wednesday August 28. The two-day…
Do your research, ratepayers forum urges Flagging an increase of around 25.35% in the value of rates in Ndlambe from 2019 to 2024, the Ndlambe Ratepayers Forum (NRF) has urged residents and business owners to submit their formal…
“Consumers don’t know about and aren’t interested what the different spheres of government are responsible for; they just want water.” Minister of Water and Sanitation Senzo Mchunu said this during an address at the Water Institute of…
New legislation signed into law this week is an important element of turning around the performance of local government, preventing the abuse of public resources and stamping out the sheltering of officials who move from municipality to…
By ANDISA BONANI Makana Municipality is one of 13 Eastern Cape financially distressed municipalities for which the DA in the province has devised a turnaround strategy. The sorry state of local government in those areas affects the…
