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Podcast: The Herald
Episode: Mayor speaks out about alleged threats
Description: “I will not be intimidated.”
So says Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Retief Odendaal, responding to alleged threats to hold him hostage at the City Hall in Gqeberha.
This as the metro’s electricity and energy executive director, Luvuyo Magalela, has already left the city because he had been threatened.
The alleged threats come amid claims of sabotage on the Bay’s power network just days after the municipality suspended seven officials in the electricity and energy department, after a preliminary forensic investigation uncovered an alleged corrupt network operating in the department.
Major power outa...