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Task teams The Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber has task teams in place to facilitate the ease of doing business. The task teams are: • Electricity • Water and Sanitation • Transport and Logistics • Safety and Security • Property RESURGE We have adopted a more activist, collaborative and action-orientated approach in pursuing our vision of being the leading catalyst for Nelson Mandela Bay to retain and attract business. We have strong partnerships with Naamsa, the Presidential Climate Commission, Nacaam and Gift of the Givers, and are currently expanding this to various other stakeholders. We have formed part of the revitalisation of the Nelson Mandela Bay Civil Society Coalition to encourage all quarters of our community to get involved in driving for a better metro to live and work in. The City Council approved our application for the Broad Framework MOU that allows member companies to adopt a variety of municipal infrastructure that needs fixing. We concluded a groundbreaking initiative where we signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Municipality which allows businesses to safeguard sub-station infrastructure within their area of operations, thus ensuring minimal interruptions to power supply and continuity of business operations. Twenty sub-stations have been adopted by 12 companies thus far. We initiated the successful implementation of a more tenable and planned 24-hour voluntary stage 5+ loadshedding schedule for qualifying industry members. To date, 40 companies participate in the initiative. As part of the plan to mitigate some of the risks associated with the water crisis facing our city, the Chamber established an Adopt-A-School initiative and member companies are assisting with fixing faulty or damaged plumbing systems at schools that have been flagged as high water consumers. Currently over 40% of the Metro’s water is lost due to leaks of which 10% of this happens at schools. Additionally, assistance has been provided to 30 schools and clinics for the establishment of water tanks to harvest rain, while six boreholes have been installed at six schools for use by the surrounding communities. We have established geographic clusters which bring together businesses operating in the same area to collaborate in resolving enabling environment issues. These clusters include Deal Party, Perseverance, Struandale, North End, Kariega, Beachfront, Neave/ Korsten, Fairview and the Baakens Valley. Others are currently under development. CONTACT DETAILS 25 The Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber runs a successful Exporter Development Programme. In total just under 1.7-million litres of water per day was saved through the targeted Adopt-A- Leak intervention in the seven zones, with an average reduction of 23% in each zone. In 2023, our Help Desk assisted businesses in unlocking 116 red-tape/bottlenecks issues. We have focused our Task Teams to prioritise the most pressing issues of water and sanitation, electricity, roads and transport, safety and security and property. We recently established a Property Task Team with a key focus on facilitating more efficient land planning and development processes between major stakeholders in the property sector and the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality as part of resurging the city. LEAD We reimagined our approach to Trade and Investment by launching an Investors Forum, which is focused on the issues that affect the retention of investment in the Metro. We successfully challenged Nersa’s municipal tariff methodology which would have been deployed to determine and approve electricity tariffs to be charged by municipalities for the EASTERN CAPE BUSINESS 2024
