It is common cause that I joined the MBDA at the tail end of the financial year under review, and though I have presided over the preparation of this Annual Report, it is the efforts of my predecessors. My initial engagement as the CEO with staff and management of the MBDA gave me the opportunity to realise that a lot more can be achieved by this entity with an improved and efficient organisational structure, culture, policies, and up to date business processes that respond to current realities.

02 September 2024, the MBDA welcomed two new senior staffers in line with the entity’s strategy and structure. Tembela Bacela, a seasoned public sector Internal Auditor has a BCom in Accounting and an Honours degree in Monitoring and Evaluation. Bacela has 18 years’ experience, starting out in Internal Audit in the Office of the Premier, Eastern Cape Government and later pursued performance management & monitoring at various Municipalities, she joins the MBDA as its first Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Manager.

Today (16 July 2024), the Mandela Bay Development Agency management team, contractors and consultants, hosted the Board of the MBDA for site visits across the agency’s operations. The site visits are an opportunity for Board members to acquaint themselves with progress on sites and to gain first-hand accounts from all the key stakeholders to inform future decision making.
 

27 June, Gqeberha. Since its establishment in 2003, the Mandela Bay Development Agency (MBDA) an entity of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMBM), has sought, through its development programmes, to act as the primary institution behind the revitalisation of key precincts within the greater Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB). This precinct approach has entailed the MBDA undertaking several capital investment projects in dedicated and strategic geographic precincts of the Nelson Mandela Bay.

On May 13, the Mandela Bay Development Agency, an entity of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, unveiled an army of street cleaners, waste pickers, tree-felling and general waste collection workers to tackle the decay in the precincts of Kariega, Gqeberha, and the North End precinct as a top us service to Metro initiatives. The 206 are part of a database of thousands that responded to the call for applications in April.