On Thursday, he will hold a media briefing to elaborate on concerns around the process followed to rename the two areas.
In September 2020, the municipality reported that it had experienced day zero, when taps were running dry and dam levels dipped below 19%.
Stricter interventions have been in place for Nelson Mandela Bay, The Garden Route, and Sarah Baartman District for the past few weeks and now a few other areas have been added to that list.
Uitenhage coucillor Lunga Nombexeza appeared in the local magistrates court on Monday on an attempted murder charge.
The newly-elected mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay on Saturday outlined his turnaround strategy for the Eastern Cape City.
This comes after the late former mayor Mongameli Bobani was ousted a year ago through a motion of no confidence.
While traditional initiations are allowed in the rest of the Eastern Cape, the metro has been identified as a coronavirus infection hotspot and the rite of passage is still prohibited.
Nelson Mandela Bay has emerged as an infection hotspot and residents have now been slapped with tighter curbs.
In the midst of all the stories of democratic degradation, we can still find beacons of excellence in a sea of mediocrity, writes Judith February.
As of Thursday, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is 800,872 and the total number of recoveries is 739,367.
President Cyril Ramaphosa declared that Nelson Mandela Bay was a COVID-19 hotspot and that additional restrictions to contain the spread would be implemented from midnight on Thursday.
In a televised address to the nation, the president acknowledged that there was clear evidence of a resurgence of COVID-19 infections in parts of the country, especially in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape.
This follows a special sitting of Cabinet that considered recommendations of the National Coronavirus Command Council meeting.
Family, friends and some politicians in the Eastern Cape bid their final goodbyes to the 73-year-old in Thanga Village near Butterworth on Saturday.
All nine accused, which includes former municipal officials, were granted bail when they appeared in a Port Elizabeth court on Friday on charges of fraud, money laundering and contraventions of the Municipal Finance Act.
The municipality has seen a rise in cases, with the Eastern Cape province having now recorded nearly 109,000 infections.
A resurgence is when your cases have increased above 30% over a two-week period
ANC Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Andile Lungisa on Friday turned down a bail offer by the High Court in Makanda.
