Over 300 companies registered on the newly launched e-tendering system developed by the Mandela Bay Development Agency. The e-tendering system enables all compliant companies to register, source all the necessary information and bid for publicised tenders.
Through the e-tendering system, the Agency’s Supply Chain Management Department, which is the heart of the MBDA, provides a controlled one way stop for sourcing and procuring services from third parties. 

Thursday 16th September 2020, The Mandela Bay Development Agency handed over the R12m Helenvale Sports Pavilion to the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality ‘s Sport, Recreation, Arts, and Culture directorate (SRAC).

In an effort to harness a resolution-based conversation around financial governance, the Mandela Bay Development Agency hosted a webinar on Thursday, 16th of September. The aim of this webinar was to rally together practitioners, industry experts, civic society, public and private organisations to share knowledge that will empower participants in various forms of refining financial management in the public sector.

Despite the prevailing crippling effect of the coronavirus pandemic on the tourism and hospitality industry, the establishment of the Fly CemAir routes from Gqeberha to East London and Bloemfontein respectively, is an important step towards revitalising the industry. Fly CemAir, in existence for the last 16 years, will initially operate thrice weekly to the King Phalo Airport (East London) and four times a week to the Bram Fischer Airport in Bloemfontein from 15 September. The company plans to increase their offering when consumer demand improves.

It’s that time of the year when the Auditor-General starts to probe whether municipalities and their entities such as the MBDA have done what they committed to do in the previous financial year, whether this was done lawfully and then determine whether to issue an audit opinion which describes the institution’s Annual Financial Statements as a fair reflection of the state of that institution. Such opinion can be what is often referred to as a clean audit on the one hand, or on the other hand, to issue a disclaimer which is an indication of an institution in disarray. The next article will explain the different audit outcomes, but it is very difficult to achieve a clean audit despite following the rules, whereas a disclaimer means that something serious is amiss.