After a successful Regional Summit on Service Delivery held on 20-21 September 2014, a coalition of faith-based organisations, trade unions, social movements and other civil society institutions will on Friday 03 October 2014 unveil a “Save our Metro” campaign. Convened by the Interdenominational African Ministers’ Association of South Africa (IDAMASA—Port Elizabeth), participants at the summit agreed that the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan area was quickly sinking into a morass of growing unaccountability by elected representatives, widespread maladministration, a growing cancer of corruption, absence of ethical and good governance, a collapsing state of education, a sick health system, increasing crime levels, unemployment and growing levels of poverty for the majority of the city’s residents.

Since the summit, different organisations have been consulting their constituencies on what needs to be done to save the Metro from the social ills ravaging the city’s communities. To address the press conference on the“Save our Metro Campaign” will be IDAMASA’s President Bishop Sandile K.Jika and the organisation’s General Secretary Rev. Dr. James V. Fatuse.

The details of the press conference are as follows:

DATE: ​Friday, 03 October 2014

TIME: ​12h00

VENUE: ​IDAMASA Offices

94 Grattan Street, New Brighton,

Port Elizabeth.

Members of the media are hereby invited to attend and report.

Issued by:

Rev. Dr. James V. Fatuse [General Secretary]