{"id":587,"date":"2025-10-10T15:31:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/mediainvite\/?p=587"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:31:52","slug":"da-to-reveal-massive-municipal-overspend-on-outdated-equipment-in-nmb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/mediainvite\/da-to-reveal-massive-municipal-overspend-on-outdated-equipment-in-nmb\/","title":{"rendered":"DA to Reveal Massive Municipal Overspend on Outdated Equipment in NMB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <strong>Monday, 13 October 2025<\/strong>, the Democratic Alliance (DA) will reveal a 2000% overspend by the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality on outdated equipment.<\/p>\n<p>DA NMB Mayoral Candidate, <strong><em>Retief Odendaal MPL<\/em><\/strong>, will provide clarity on this catastrophic mismanagement of millions in municipal funds during a media briefing at City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>He will be joined by DA NMB Caucus Spokesperson, <strong><em>Cllr Siyasanga Sijadu<\/em><\/strong>, and DA NMB Spokesperson for Safety and Security, <strong><em>Cllr Jason Grobbelaar<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Odendaal<\/strong> <\/em>will also announce the next steps to ensure that this wasteful use of taxpayer money is thoroughly investigated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details of the event are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Date: Monday, 13 October 2025<\/p>\n<p>Time: 10:00<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Jenny&#8217;s Room<\/p>\n<p>Address: City Hall, Govan Mbeki Avenue, Central, Gqeberha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, 13 October 2025, the Democratic Alliance (DA) will reveal a 2000% overspend by the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality on outdated equipment. DA NMB Mayoral Candidate, Retief Odendaal MPL, will provide clarity on this catastrophic mismanagement of millions in municipal funds during a media briefing at City Hall. He will be joined by DA &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[32],"class_list":["type-post","category-politics","tag-gqeberha","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/mediainvite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/mediainvite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/mediainvite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/mediainvite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/mediainvite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/mediainvite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/mediainvite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/mediainvite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/mediainvite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/mediainvite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}