The court victory awarded by the Gqeberha High Court in favour of the MBDA for the urgent release of unlawfully withheld funds to the entity is a victory for service delivery. Unfortunately, once again the citizens of the Metro must bear the financial cost, but even more severe are the development opportunities lost over the nine-month stand-off. When I was appointed on the 22nd of June 2023, this entity had already been hard at work reinventing itself into a dynamic, sustainable, and agile development agency to spearhead some of the long stalled catalytic projects, to turn around the degradation of Central and turn the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium into a commercially attractive operation, but all of that was scuppered by political interference and unlawful actions which have now been confirmed by the High Court.
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