If spaza shop owners are being warned, charged or shut down on the basis of the legality of their buildings, Ndlambe’s officials had better be confident that other structures within the municipality, including private homes, fully comply…
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…
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…
Water availability charge debate At the MS Teams virtual open council meeting last Wednesday (August 18), the Democratic Alliance, the official opposition at the council, issued a notice to the meeting that the water availability charge…
It was difficult to ascertain but, what could have been a sewage leak was reported in Van der Riet Street on Friday afternoon. Talk of the Town visited the site of the leak which seemed to be a drain at the MyPond Hotel side of the…
TimesLIVE ‘So it’s the problem child?’: Mzansi reacts to stricter lockdown in Nelson Mandela Bay Social media was filled with memes and messages reacting to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement of stricter lockdown measures in Nelson…
The Alfred Nzo district municipality was again under police investigation when the Hawks raided its EmaXesibeni offices on Friday. The search-and-seizure operation was to secure critical documents linked to a R36m fraud and corruption…
Talk of the Town was contacted recently regarding a sewage problem that they suggested, might have been growing for some time. The sewage pond can be found on the veld at the bottom of Surf View Road in Forest Downs. From observation, it…
It is no secret that the sewerage system in Port Alfred, as well as in other parts of Ndlambe, is a permanent state of disrepair, and sewage leaks are commonplace. However, when raw sewage runs across the pavement at one of the town’s…
Joy was written on the faces of water-starved villagers near Mthatha on Wednesday when clean water came out their taps for the first time in decades. In 2013, residents of Ntilini village in Lower Xhongora told the Dispatch that the last…
At the Ndlambe council meeting, held on Tuesday a discussion took place regarding the latest Grahamstown High Court ruling against Ndlambe Municipality for awarding a R100-million contract to build a seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant…
The Ndlambe council met on Tuesday afternoon via digital conferencing on Microsoft Teams. South Africa Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) and the Independent Municipal and Allied Workers Union (c) established a collective bargaining…
There has to be something done about the sewage that flows freely at various locations throughout Ndlambe. It is not simply because we are a favourite holiday destination but rather because people are suffering as a result of the failure…
The SA Local Government Association took a decision on April 26 to establish Municipal Solidarity Funds as a response to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s call to raise money to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Most people would like to help those…
