Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality

ELECTRICITY INTERRUPTION ON 21 OCTOBER 2018

Residents are advised of a proposed electricity shutdown on SUNDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2018, between the hours of 08h00 and 16h00, in various areas of Nelson Mandela Bay, caused by the temporary shutdown of the College Drive Substation, to allow repairs and maintenance to be carried out on a local transformer.

Areas affected: Mill Park, St. Georges Park (only end of College Drive Road), Glendinningvale, Greenacres, Scotstown.

Streets affected: Ascot Road, Barris Walk Street, Bradshaw Street, Churchill Road, College Drive, Conyngham Road, Cape Road, Dene Road, Fairford Road, Highbeech Road, Lenox Street, McLean Road, Mill Park Road, Mortimer Road, Nightingale Street, Ramsay Lane, Salisbury Avenue, Wares Road, Way Avenue, Wembley Road, Westview Drive, Woodville Road, Young Road.

All installations must be treated as live for the duration of the outage. - Apologies are tendered for any inconvenience caused.

City calls on Transnet to fast-track the relocation of bulk fuel storage and ore export facilities at PE Habour

PUBLISHED 11 Jan 2018

Today's visit by the Executive Mayor Cllr Athol Trollip, MMC for EDTA Andrew Whitfield, MMC for Public Health Lance Grootboom and MMC for SRAC Siyasanga Sijadu to the Transnet manganese ore export site was precipitated by the reported civic outrage at the contamination of air, private property and facilities of neighbouring communities and businesses.

Whilst the City recognises the economic importance of both these bulk storage facilities especially the exportation of manganese ore, we believe that the lifespan of the current facilities has expired.

We will be calling for a full public health and environmental compliance assessment of these facilities in order to protect the interests of the citizens of the city as well as our critical economic growth sectors such as tourism and sports tourism, which are directly linked to a healthy environment and a growing economy.

The City is committed to working with Transnet to accelerate the relocation of these facilities to the specially and specifically designed Port of Ngqura as soon as possible.

Other important advantages of an accelerated relocation are the reduction of heavy ore carrying vehicles congesting the inner City and placing unnecessary strain on our internal arterial roads. The relocation will also drastically enhance the aesthetic value of this prime beach and habour front land which has for too long been neglected.

The City has held a number of high level meetings with the Group Chief Executive Siyabonga Gama and other senior Transnet officials to discuss the urgency of this relocation and we have informed them that we cannot wait until 2023 for this to happen.

Our visit did expose the fact that the handling of such high volumes of ore in a suburban environment cannot be done without creating harmful dust discharges.

We will hold Transnet to their undertakings to ensure that all possible dust mitigation practices are being implemented at this site as long as they are exporting ore from this port.

We will continue to oversight the operations at this port and the relocation process from the PE Habour to Port of Ngqura.

For queries:

Sibongile Dimbaza

Mayoral Spokesperson

0823793404

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ELECTRICITY INTERRUPTION ON 21 OCTOBER 2018