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Acting Mayor Thsonono Buyeye has announced Anele Qaba as the new acting municipal manager following the arrest of Mvuleni Mapu.Mapu and local businesswoman Bulelwa Eunice Ntanga-Mkwakwi were each granted bail of R20 000 by the Port Elizabeth Magistrate's Court on Friday.They stand accused of fraud and corruption involving a R14 million RDP housing tender granted…

Acting Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor, Councillor Tshonono Buyeye (right). The Eastern Cape Nelson Mandela Bay metro will be placed under administration. Cogta MEC Xolile Nqatha has alerted the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality of his intentions to invoke Section 139(1) of the Constitution. The metro has been without a mayor since December 2019. Eastern Cape Cogta MEC Xolile Nqatha has…

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. The Eastern Cape Cogta department says the Nelson Mandela Bay metro has no desire to elect a new mayor.The metro has been without an elected mayor since December 2019. This as National Treasury vows to withhold its R800 million grant funding if they do not fill the vacancy. It's…

UN Secretary-General, António Guterres. (@NelsonMandela, Twitter) During his address at the 18th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture, UN Secretary-General, António Guterres said a new social contract was needed to overcome inequalities and the global pandemic. Addressing different forms of global inequalities based on race, gender, class and other factors, Guterres said inequalities have reached "crisis proportions".However, he said…

The Nelson Mandela Foundation will be hosting a virtual annual lecture that will be live from Johannesburg and the United Nations in New York City.Antonio Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, will deliver the 18th annual lecture.This year's Mandela Day lecture will be dedicated to Mandela's late daughter, Zindzi, who died this week. Nelson…