A seaside town at the mouth of Gonubie river within Buffalo City, Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The town is divided into Gonubie East and Gonubie west. This is an ideal holiday destination for families as it has a family friendly park situated on the main beach. The beach has a blue flag status with beautiful vegetation and estuary so breathtaking. For more information about the town visitors can contact the Buffalo City Tourism Offices.

DOCTOR:
Doctor's contact is for Dr Kelly, Bent.

HEALTHCARE:
There is no hospital in town but there is the Gonubie Clinic. Tel : +27(0)43 705 9736 and there is also the Intercare Gonubie Medical and dental centre. Tel : +27(0)43 711 4400.

“Buffalo City in Ruins: SCOPA Lifts the Lid on ANC’s Complete Collapse of Governance in the Eastern Cape By Staff Reporter What Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) encountered during its two-day oversight visit to Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality was not merely a breakdown in administration but an unflinching, stomach-turning revelation of a total collapse. A brutal postmortem of a city buried beneath the wreckage of ANC-led misrule, where dysfunction is not the exception, but the rule. What should have been a routine audit of finances and service delivery turned into a searing indictment of political cowardice, moral decay, and institutional abandonment. SCOPA, in carrying out its constitutional mandate to oversee governance and public expenditure, arrived to find a metro teetering on the edge of irrelevance. It is a city hollowed out by factionalism, where governance has been reduced to theatrical announcements masking a bitter truth: that Buffalo City has become a cautionary tale in what happens when politics devours public service. The site inspections spoke louder than any glossy presentation ever could. At the Zwelitsha Wastewater Treatment Works, the stench of stagnation hangs where clean water should flow. At the Mdantsane NU 2 swimming pool, the only thing completed is the silence of neglect. Water World lies rusted and forgotten, while Marina Glen popularly known to locals and visitors as Ebuhlanti sits in eerie disrepair, its promise of joy now a monument to betrayal. Each project is a graveyard of public hope, where millions have vanished into the black hole of delay, incompetence, and unaccountable power. These are not simply “project delays” or “procurement issues.” They are crimes of neglect - systematic, repeated, and cynical against communities stripped of water, sanitation, recreation, and dignity. Buffalo City is bleeding, and its leadership is unmoved. SCOPA’s public engagement with the City’s leadership was an unmitigated disaster. Technical chaos, a repeatedly collapsing livestream, and officials floundering in confusion reflected more than poor planning which symbolized a municipality incapable of speaking to, or even facing, its own people. What should have been a moment of democratic accountability degenerated into a pitiful circus of dodging, blaming, and bureaucratic tap-dancing. At the centre of this implosion are the incapacitated Executive Mayor, Councillor Princess Faku, an incompetent City Manager, Mxolisi Yawa, an exposed Speaker of Council, and the ANC-dominated Council. Their legacy is not one of governance but one of systematic obfuscation, collapsed oversight, and deep complicity. Far from leading, they were tormented by SCOPA for being actively dismantling every system designed to hold them to account. Nowhere was this more evident than in the blatant contradictions between the Metro’s senior leadership and its Development Agency. When questioned on timelines, costs, and oversight responsibilities, the two entities publicly contradicted each other before SCOPA exposing what appeared to be a calculated effort to obscure the truth and avoid accountability. As SCOPA Chairperson Songezo Zibi declared in his damning closing remarks: “The City leadership has no interest at all in cleaning up this City. The Speaker and Chief Whip are meant to ensure the effective running of the legislature, but you are not passing the test. I will report to Parliament with your titles about this conclusion.” His words landed amidst even darker revelations against Council’s refusal to cooperate with the SIU, the Auditor-General, and the Hawks until law enforcement was forced to obtain search and seizure warrants to extract vital municipal records. In a functional democracy, such obstruction is scandalous. In Buffalo City, it is standard operating procedure. The rot didn’t end there. A Chairperson of the Municipal Public Accounts Committee (MPAC) brazenly attempted to mislead SCOPA, blaming irregular expenditure on events “dating back a decade.” But the façade quickly fell apart. Pressed on R1.2 billion in irregular spending under the current administration, the deception from Mayor Faku, City Manager Yawa, and second Chief Financial Officer, Vincent Pillay was exposed and crumbled. There was no plan. No clarity. No accountability. Just hollow spin and institutional evasion. Perhaps most damning of all is a City with no recovery roadmap. No strategy to complete critical infrastructure projects. No urgency regarding the water outages crippling surrounding communities. No vision. No heart. Just vague promises and weary bureaucratic theatre. In a last-ditch attempt to save face, Council promised to table long-delayed forensic reports by May 2025 and pledged cooperation with law enforcement and Chapter 9 institutions. But for SCOPA and the people of Buffalo City the damage is already done. These promises are too little, too late. They are ritualistic declarations from a political elite that no longer governs and no longer pretends to care. Buffalo City is no longer just mismanaged but a humanitarian failure. A metro in name only. A hollow shell of what a functional city should be. If the ANC does not summon the courage to excise the rot within its local and provincial ranks, the 2026 Local Government Elections will not merely be an electoral reckoning—they may be the final collapse of public trust in the state’s ability to govern. https://www.facebook.com/share/1FH4DnVoDi/ (Ref: SCOPA)” - Chris Smit, 2025/03/30

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