\u201cDear Ratepayers. The letter\u2026 drawn up by Adv Graham Richards send to The Mayor, Municipal Manager and the Chief Financial Officer combined with your e-mails to the Department of Water Affairs helped to lift the water restrictions. The Mayors office contacted us on Wednesday at 16:30 to notify us that the Mayor will make a public statement on Friday (today) to lift the water restrictions. We thank you all for your participation in this matter\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Executive Mayor Zanoxolo Wayile said he never made such a commitment and neither did anybody in his office and the e-mail message at best can be considered a deliberate fabrication.<\/p>\n
Mayor Wayile said he respects the good working relations that exist between the Municipality\u2019s Water and Sanitation Division and the Department of Water Affairs.<\/p>\n
Water restrictions remain in place.<\/p>\n
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Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality\u2019s Executive Mayor, Cllr Zanoxolo Wayile, expressed his shock upon learning that Nelson Mandela Bay Ratepayers Association member Kobus Gerber sent a letter to his members claiming that the Mayor will announce the lifting of water restrictions today. In his e-mail, copied to most media houses, Gerber wrote as follows: \u201cDear Ratepayers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-3154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}