Costs mount as iconic Bay museum remains shut
By TMG Editor - 19 February 2014
DESPITE being closed for four months, Nelson Mandela Bay's iconic apartheid history centrepiece, the Red Location Museum, has cost ratepayers R2.5-million without a single visitor having benefited.
Meanwhile, even before closure, the number of visitors had dwindled from 30000 to 5500 a month, over a five-month period in 2012.
In response to questions tabled by the DA, the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality confirmed yesterday that the monthly operating costs of the museum are about R613561.
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