President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed two proclamations authorising the Special Investigating Unit to probe allegations of corruption and maladministration in the affairs of the Eastern Cape department of health and the Midvaal…
Ratepayers are furious with their new BCM rates bills this month, which are linked to the controversial house valuations earlier this year. Some properties were doubled in value. Now it seems that homeowners who objected to the valuations…
Auditor-general Kimi Makwetu has raised concern over the financial situation of municipalities in the Eastern Cape. In his national municipal audit report for the 2016/17 financial year‚ Makwetu said on Wednesday that the trend of…
ONE of the most important tasks for any municipality is the managing of private investment in their area. Private enterprises are a major source of cash and jobs, so encouraging investment should be a high priority. Of course, given the…
By Bongani Fuzile ENOCH Mgijima local municipality’s council speaker has called for transparency in the appointment of a municipal manager, complaining that the mayor and her followers had acted unprocedurally. Mayor Lindiwe…
For the second day this week, pupils at Nkululeko Secondary School in KwaNobuhle have not been taught due to a broken pipe at a neighbouring property spilling potentially hazardous sewage into the school’s yard. According to the school,…
Disgruntled Buffalo City Metro ratepayers involved in disputes over the municipality’s faulty billing and meter reading systems have been urged to report their cases as the metro rolls out a new revenue campaign. The campaign was…
THE most recent Auditor-General (AG) report on South African local government financial management and oversight, paints a bleak picture, inconsistent with the laudable and enforceable principles of the Constitution. Theuns Eloff Section…
Scandal-prone OR Tambo district municipality was yesterday named by Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu as the biggest culprit of irregular expenditure in the country, with R1.569-million irregularly spent in the 2015-16 financial year. Makwetu…
Sixty-three people in informal settlements have been killed by illegal electricity connections in the Buffalo City (BCM) Metro in the past three years. The most recent case was in Mzamomhle on Wednesday when a 25-year-old man allegedly…
The days of “thumb-sucked” water readings will soon be over for some Buffalo City Metro residents as the metro is set to overhaul more than 3000 water meters in its suburbs. A sum of R16-million has been allocated for the 2017-18…
Buffalo City Metro yesterday pleaded with Mzamomhle residents in Gonubie to allow a contractor they chased away last week to finish an RDP electrification project. The city roped in Ballenden and Robb Consulting Engineers to electrify 300…
Emett points to faulty BCM meter BUFFALO City Metro (BCM) residents’ water woes continue as residents continually complain about high and incorrect water bills that are not being attended to. BCM resident, Alan Emett’s municipal account…
Almost 2000 children may soon be unable to access foster care grants and other forms of state aid. The East London Child Welfare (ELCW) administration block in Belgravia had to shut its doors on Wednesday after Buffalo City Municipality…
FOR years, sewage has been spilling over on Fritz Potjieter’s land at his Willow Park home. The main sewage pipeline that services Willow Park and Collondale runs through the Buffalo City Metro (BCM) resident’s land and is, nine months…
