The municipality has accrued billions of rand in wasteful spending, and more than 6 000 putrid bucket toilets
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The former councillor is scheduled to appear before the provincial disciplinary committee on charges of misconduct.
Bobani’s lawyer, Danie Gouws, confirmed the Hawks raided his client’s office at the City Hall in Port Elizabeth and his residence
The ACDP’s Lance Grootboom and Cope councillor Siyasanga Sijadu had submitted a motion of exigency for the removal of Bobani
The United Democratic Movement’s Mongameli Bobani therefore remains mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay
Bantu Holomisa says the official opposition uses other parties to gain control and then shuns them
The DA has described the meeting as a mock council sitting which was illegal, insisting it would challenge the validity of Trollip’s removal.
The municipality has avoided being placed under administration, after the fourth to pass the next year’s financial budget was finally successful
UDM leader Bantu Holomisa says anybody who is willing to be a mayor, other than the DA or Trollip, his party will support.
BFFs? The UDM leader sparks speculation by offering the embattled mayor a shoulder to cry on
In a move to fill vacant posts in Public Health and Corporate Services, Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Athol Trollip announced changes to his committee.
Tense relations between the DA and smaller opposition parties have threatening the opposition’s hopes of assuming power nationally in 2019
Trollip says the motion of no confidence against him is going to fail because it is an act of revenge by ousted deputy mayor, Bobani Mongameli
The DA hopes ‘sanity will prevail’ in its coalition as the ANC moves to oust Jo’burg’s mayor
An urgent application by the United Democratic Movement has been struck from the roll for want of urgency and the party ordered to pay costs.
Smaller parties are feeling left out by the Democratic Alliance and the EFF has ambitions of its own
The coalition government in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro is on shaky ground following the dismissal of Deputy Mayor Bobani