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No work, big pay: As local government elections approach, the issue of city manager Noxolo Nqwazi’s suspension will probably be used to score political points rather than solve service delivery failures in Nelson Mandela Bay. Photo: Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
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City crumbles but manager bags millions

The saga of the Nelson Mandela Bay city manager, who has been under suspension for three years, highlights systemic mismanagement amid persistent service delivery failures and is…

  • Brian Sokutu
6 min read
Doubt: The treasury’s Malijeng Ngqaleni has said the appointment of Anele Qaba (above) as the Mandela Bay Develop-ment Agency’s chief executive has ‘raised questions’. (Facebook/Mandela Bay Development Agency)
ANELE QABA

Nelson Mandela Bay development agency CEO says he left city with clean slate

Projects have ground to a halt after the treasury withheld funds over the appointment of Anele Qaba, who says he was legally appointed

  • Lyse Comins
6 min read
The deadlock at the Nelson Mandela Bay metro municipality, with damaging consequences for municipal performance, reaffirms the urgency for the government to act on its own proposal.
ANELE QABA

Two city managers, one municipality: Why reforms are urgent

As a recent court case in Nelson Mandela Bay shows, the city management appointment process should be purely administrative and stripped of politics

  • Mcebisi Ndletyana
19 min read