Time for consumers to pay their debts
In the coming months, the municipality will be intensifying its efforts to recover outstanding debt from slow-paying consumers.
This will be done in a bid...
Business owners complain about service delivery
“If we knew how bad the service delivery would become, we would have started our businesses in another city.”
This is the view of local...
Barcoding error stops grass from being cut
Open spaces across the city are overrun with bushes and long grass yet newly ordered bush-clearing and grass-cutting tools are gathering dust in the...
Successful first cleanups of the year: Ward councillor, MP lead efforts...
Ward 28 councillor Frederick Pohl and his team spent Friday morning, January 19, cutting the grass at Beacon Bay police station.
This forms part of...
Infrastructure blamed for sewage overflow nightmare
“The municipality must acknowledge they have a problem with ageing infrastructure and insufficient maintenance. Sewage overflows into residential areas is completely unacceptable and cannot...
Drunk drivers warned of new mobile centre
Over the festive season residents may see a sleek new mobile alcohol evidence centre making the rounds of roadblocks in East London to do...
Calls for iconic beach slide to be repaired
Tidy Towns Buffalo City and Border Kei Chamber of Business (BKCOB) have renewed calls for BCMM to issue a tender for the repair of...
Milner Estate houses targeted by burglars, Criminals hide in overgrown bushes
This has been a financially and emotionally draining year for residents living on Reservoir and Connaught roads in Milner Estate, with house break-ins averaging...
Municipal credit control policy to be reconsidered after legal threat
Last week the municipality decided to reconsider the 80/20 credit control policy for outstanding debt and possibly change the split to 60/40 instead.
This follows...
Go Metro – BCM vows to fix ablution facilities
On September 12, Buffalo City Metro, Border Kei Chamber of Business and Buffalo City Tidy Towns committed to refurbish ablution facilities at beaches and...
Residents taking BCM to court
Two residents from Pefferville are taking the Buffalo City Municipality to court on October 24 over failing infrastructure causing raw sewage to flow into...
