‘We need help’ — NMB acting city manager admits water situation now ‘unbearable’
Daily Maverick | 03.07.2026 02:06
In a letter to an exasperated councillor whose ward has been suffering under extensive water outages for months, acting Nelson Mandela Bay city manager Lonwabo Ngoqo wrote that he was seeking to appoint an outside consultant to identify problems and solutions for water and electricity in the metro, as the situation had become ‘unbearable’.