COMMUNITY WORKS PROJECT CREATES MORE THAN 1000 JOBS - published 16 Nov 2012
It was a sea of orange overalls in the Nangoza Jebe Hall in New Brighton on Thursday, 15 November when the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality launched the creation of more than 1 000 jobs for community members under its Extended Public Works Programme.
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MAYOR WAYILE KICKS OFF SCHOOL UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION - published 30 Oct 2012
Nelson Mandela Bay Executive Mayor, Cllr Zanoxolo Wayile, joined the Municipality’s Expanded Public Works Programme and members of the Education Task Team to distribute school uniforms and stationery to learners in need at the Malabar Primary School on 30 October.
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GOVERNMENT SPHERES JOIN FORCES TO TACKLE SERVICE DELIVERY CHALLENGES - published 30 Oct 2012
The Local Government and Traditional Affairs Minister, Mr Richard Baloyi, along with the department’s provincial MEC, Mlibo Qoboshiyane, on a visit to Nelson Mandela Bay in October and joined the Executive Mayor, Cllr Zanoxolo Wayile, to take stock of service delivery challenges facing the city.
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MAYOR ENCOURAGES RESIDENTS COOPERATION WITH BACKYARD DWELLERS REGISTRATION - published 30 Oct 2012
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality in partnership with Statistics South Africa will conduct a registration drive for backyard shack dwellers across the city from November this year.
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MAYOR WAYILE HAILS INVESTMENT INCENTIVES AS BOOST FOR CITY’S ECONOMY - published 10 Oct 2012
Nelson Mandela Bay’s Executive Mayor, Cllr Zanoxolo Wayile, has thrown his support behind the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s investment incentive policy, which recently awarded a R1 million incentive to Discovery Health for creating more than 300 new and sustainable jobs for mostly youth at their service centre based at the Coega Industrial Development Zone Business Park.
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MAYORAL CUP CHALLENGE REACHES FEVER PITCH - published 1 Aug 2012
Celebrations were in order for the male and female soccer teams who won the final round of the Mayoral Cup Challenge at the Motherwell NU 2 stadium on Saturday, 28 July.
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MUNICIPALITY PARTNERS WITH CHARITY TO CHANGE THE LIVES OF THE POOR - published 13 Jun 2012
“The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality cares,” say those who are benefiting from the assistance the NMBM is providing through its grant in aid donations made to charities in June this year.
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MAYOR WAYILE PLEDGES FUNDING AND SUPPORT TO MOTHERWELL FREEDOM RACE - published 9 May 2012
On April 27 to celebrate Freedom Day, Mayor Wayile spent the day at the Motherwell Freedom Run Road Race. The event itself was a success, with a focus on the youth.
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MAYOR WAYILE ENGAGES WITH BUSINESS ON NMBM’S DEVELOPMENTAL GOALS - published 9 May 2012
A breakfast briefing was held at the Radisson Blu in April to engage with the business sector as part of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s strategy to form strategic partnerships in pursuance of the institutions developmental goals.
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SISTER CITY JACKSONVILLE PLEDGES SUPPORT TO EDUCATION - published 9 May 2012
A delegation from the Nelson Mandela Bay’s sister city of Jacksonville in the United States of America paid a recent visit to the city to donate a mobile clinic to the community of Chatty, and also to make a donation of R1 600 towards the Education Task Team’s uniform collection drive.
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MAYOR WAYILE WELCOMES LIGHTING INNOVATIONS INVESTMENT IN BAY - published 9 May 2012
Lighting Innovations, one of the country’s leading manufacturers of a range of light fittings, announced an investment of R60 million in a new plant in Greenbushes, Nelson Mandela Bay.
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SUPPORTING THE WALK FOR AUTISM - published 9 May 2012
On Tuesday, 8 May the Executive Mayor met with a group of amazing patriots who are on The Big Autism Thing, a walk along the coastline from Durban to Cape Town to raise awareness about Autism Spectrum Disorders and funds for organisations that work with people on the spectrum. The walk started in Durban on 31 March 2012 and will finish in Cape Town on 9 June 2012.
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ROBUST ENGAGEMENTS WITH NORTHERN AREAS BUSINESSPEOPLE YIELDS WAY FORWARD - published 9 May 2012
A fruitful meeting took place at the Cleary Park Shopping Complex on Monday, 7 May between the Executive Mayor, Cllr Zanoxolo Wayile, and Northern Areas business people to improve working relations going forward.
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MAYOR COLLECTS ANOTHER DONATION TO NMBM’S UNIFORM COLLECTION DRIVE - published 19 Apr 2012
On Wednesday, 18 April the Boardwalk Casino donated 100 pairs of school shoes toward the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s Education Task Team’s uniform collection drive.
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STATEMENT BY MAYOR WAYILE ON THE TRAGIC DEATH OF RHODES STUDENT LELONA FUFU - published 17 Apr 2012
On behalf of the Council of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, all municipal officials and the residents of our city, I wish to convey my deepest condolences to the Fufu family for the tragic and senseless death of their beloved daughter, who was fatally stabbed while on her way to her graduation in Grahamstown.
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