Nelson Mandela Bay’s service delivery collapse: Odendaal details streetlights, sewage and infrastructure failures
DA mayoral candidate Retief Odendaal said basic service delivery in Nelson Mandela Bay had collapsed under the current ANC-led coalition, pointing to broken streetlights, sewer blockages, vandalised infrastructure and industrial decay as evidence of what he described as years of neglect.
Odendaal said Nelson Mandela Bay remained the “most fixable metro” in the country because it was not bankrupt and its infrastructure, though declining, had not yet collapsed, and said the city could benefit from “saving migration” by leveraging its two working harbours and quality of life to attract investment.
He claimed that while serving as mayor, he had recognised the coalition would not survive and had worked with the CEO of the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber to protect infrastructure regardless of political instability.
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