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The municipality has 41 permanent and satellite clinics, 13 mobile clinics, eight hospitals, 22 libraries, 31 community and municipal halls, 79 sports facilities, 19 beaches, 18 pools, 273 schools, one university (the Nelson Mandela University), four technical colleges and two Further Education and Training institutions.
Kouga Local Municipality: EC108 Sarah Baartman Jeffreys Bay: 2,670 112,941 42.3 Makana Local Municipality: EC104 Sarah Baartman Makhanda: 4,376 82,060 18.8 Matatiele Local Municipality: EC441 Alfred Nzo Matatiele: 4,352 219,447 50.4 Mbhashe Local Municipality: EC121 Amathole Dutywa: 3,303 277,250 84.0 Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Local ...
Populated places in Nelson Mandela Bay (1 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
In 2001, the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality was formed as an administrative area covering Gqeberha, the neighbouring towns of Uitenhage and Despatch and the surrounding agricultural areas. The name honours former President Nelson Mandela. The combined metropolitan area had a population estimated at around 1.3 million in 2006.
The Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality council consists of one hundred and twenty members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.Sixty councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in sixty wards, while the remaining sixty are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
In 1985, police opened fire on a funeral procession in Uitenhage, killing a number of unarmed people, in an event that became notorious as an example of police oppression in South Africa under apartheid. [7] [8] In 2001 it was incorporated with Port Elizabeth and Despatch into the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality.
Despatch is a small town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa situated between Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage with an estimated population of 40 000. It forms part of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality which includes Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage, and has collectively a population of over 1.3 million.
Gary van Niekerk is a South African politician who has been the Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay since May 2023. Previously, he had served as the municipality's council speaker from November 2021 until May 2023. Van Niekerk is the current president of the National Alliance (previously named the Northern Alliance). [1]