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New public swimming pools for KwaNobuhle and Zwide NCEBA DLADLA DROUGHT in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is finally over; so willing and able residents can soon go to their nearby swimming pools and enjoy themselves again, said Municipal spokesperson Kupido Baron. In fact, according to Baron, some of the Bay’s swimming pools have opened their doors already while maintenance work and employment of staff, which is now complete, will soon make it possible for the remaining pools to open their doors. Baron has also announced the good news of the opening, on 1 December, of two public swimming pools, each costing R16 million, in Zwide in Port Elizabeth and next to the Indoor Sports Centre in KwaNobuhle, Uitenhage. “A couple of years ago during the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality’s Masithethisane Community Outreach Programme, people of KwaNobuhle indicated strongly that they wanted a swimming pool. And now, they have it,” Baron told PE Express Indaba. According to Baron, the public swimming pool in Zwide was built as part of the 2010/2011 Financial Year budget, adding that in the 2011/2012 Financial Year the municipality will build a public swimmingpool in New Brighton as well. Local residents got employment opportunities during the construction of the pools; and will also be assured of employment opportunitiesfor their day to day maintenance, according to Baron. Baron said residents should also look out for information about “Learn to swim” programmes aimed at benefitting township residents during school holidays. “It is right on our doorstep, in the township. I want to thank our government for this swimming pool,” said Phindezwa Tose (27), East Cape Midlands College student and mother of two from KwaNobuhle. Tose
said she was happy her children will not have to go into town in order to learn basic skills and sports like swimming. Nelson Mandela Bay Department of Sport and Recreation’s Sport and
Community Liaison Thembisile Mengu said he was certain that by the first week of December all public swimming pools will be opened. His department, Mengu said, was busy sorting out all the logistics and
problems that resulted in some pools not opening up as planned. “We’ve got everything ready at the KwaNobuhle and Zwide swimmingpools, so we’ll be opening next week for people to come and swim,” said
Thembisile Mengu. Photographs: Nceba Dladla
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Mengu. Mengu said the municipality reconstructed the old swimming pool in Zwide. The other public swimming pool in the township is in 4B in Motherwell.
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