Nelson Mandela Bay underspends on drought aid

Just R35m out of R233m used as metro’s critical water shortage worsens

As Nelson Mandela Bay edges ever closer to a water disaster, it has spent just R35m of the R233m allocated to it by the national government to solve the problem.

This is according to a senior provincial government official, in response to  questions on drought funding and the increasingly dire situation in the parched western region of the Eastern Cape...

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