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…
Half a kilometre to fetch a bucket of water is too far for someone who is old and is living on their own. Thembelani Mbunge is neither, but the Brakfontein, Alexandria resident is concerned about the living conditions of his neighbours…
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…
Members of the Port Alfred and Nemato Infrastructure Concerns (Panic) group handed over a memorandum of grievances and demands regarding the municipal water supply to Ndlambe municipal manager Rolly Dumezweni outside the Port Alfred Civic…
Members of the Port Alfred and Nemato Infrastructure Concerns (Panic) group staged a demonstration outside the Port Alfred Civic Centre on Tuesday morning, November 23, just before the inauguration of the new Ndlambe council. Residents…
Readers of last week’s Talk of the Town will have noticed that Ndlambe Municipality placed several large advertisements in the newspaper that serve as a promotion of its work, rather than the usual notices about tenders, jobs and town…
Port Alfred’s water woes may be alleviated at least partially as a new 1ML owner-operated reverse osmosis (RO) plant has been approved by the Ndlambe council – at no capital cost to the municipality. The plant will be placed at the Wharf…
‘The municipality has nothing to redeem itself from,’ says municipal manager Ndlambe Municipality claims it has been meeting the legislative requirement of mininum standards for basic water supply to Port Alfred residents, in a response…
New RO plant in Port Alfred only producing 1.5ML/day Water in Bathurst has been shut off for two days – yesterday and today – to allow the pumping of water into the reservoir so levels can rise. Ndlambe Municipality announced this…
It is understandable that residents are questioning the timing of the complete outage in Port Alfred’s water supply since the new 2ML seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant was meant to have gone online last week. Many noted that we…
Port Alfred’s water situation shows no signs of improving yet, although we are a few days away from the first phase seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant going online, according to the last update sent by the municipality. Water supply…
On Thursday May 20, Talk of the Town came across this company, Makeli Cartage, siphoning water from the residential communal tank in Park Road to fill four 200-litre drums. This kind of abuse of water meant for the community during the…
Ndlambe Municipality has sent out a notice advising residents that a critical pipeline between the balancing dam and water treatment plant in Port Alfred has burst. “Consequently no water can be pumped from the central borehole system at…
RO plant will supply no additional water, it will merely replace the ‘Sarel Hayward temporary solution’ In Ndlambe Municipality’s latest media statement on the water crisis released this afternoon, they say only 25 days of water remain…
It might have escaped some Port Alfred residents’ notice – even though there was a “media statement” from Ndlambe Municipality widely circulated on social media – that the municipality embarked on impromptu water shedding two weeks ago.…
