Over 1,700 potential job opportunities in Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality are vacant.
This revelation followed recent parliamentary replies, according to the Democratic Alliance in the Eastern Cape.
DA Caucus leader, Retief Odendaal slammed Nelson Mandela Bay Executive Mayor, Danny Jordaan, on Friday, for withholding services from residents in Nelson Mandela Bay.
Odendaal said the failure of the metro to fill 1,774 vacancies was surely the reason for ongoing service delivery woes.
Odendaal further slammed the municipality for withholding public funds, instead of spending cash holdings on better services.
Jordaan previously announced that the municipality had cash holdings of R1.7 billion in the bank.
Meanwhile, Acting Municipal Manager, Johan Mettler, said the municipality had budgeted for 250 vacancies for the 2015/16 financial year, amounting to around R30 million.
He said the Metro had budgeted for 250 vacancies and was looking at filling 15-hundred vacant posts by the end of this financial year.
