Buffalo City
Metropolitan municipality · Eastern Cape
Contact details
- Telephone
- 043 705 2000
- Fax
- 043 743 8568
- Website
- www.buffalocity.gov.za
- Street address
- Trust Bank Centre
C/O Oxford & North Street
East London
5200 - Postal address
- PO Box 134
East London
5200
Who to contact at Buffalo City
Senior office bearers as published by National Treasury. Start with the administration (municipal manager or CFO); escalate to the mayor’s office if you get no response — or follow the full escalation path.
Mayor
Ms Princess Faku
Political head of the council. Escalate service delivery complaints here when the administration has not responded.
Deputy Mayor
Mrs Ntombizandiile
Deputises for the mayor and often carries specific portfolios.
Municipal Manager
Mr Mxolisi Yawa
The accounting officer — the most senior official, responsible for day-to-day administration and staff.
Chief Financial Officer
Mr Vincent Pillay
Responsible for the budget, rates accounts, billing disputes and supply chain management.
About this municipality
A single-tier "metro" that delivers all municipal services in South Africa’s largest urban centres.
- Category
- Metropolitan municipality (Category A)
- Demarcation code
- BUF
- Municipal type
- A — Metro
- Province
- Eastern Cape
Audit outcome
Qualified 2023/24 financial year
The auditor found material misstatements in specific areas of the financial statements. The rest of the statements can be relied on, but those areas cannot.
Outcome determined by the Auditor-General of South Africa; budgets and spending published by National Treasury on Municipal Money.
Towns and areas in Buffalo City
If your town appears here, Buffalo City is the municipality to contact.
- Almondale
- Amalinda
- Arcadia
- Balasi
- Bay View
- Beacon Bay
- Bhisho
- Blue Bend
- Bonza Bay
- Braelynn
- Breidbach
- Buffalo
- Buffalo Flats
- Buffalo Harbor
- Bulembu
- Bunkers Hill
- Cambridge
- Christmas Vale
- Cyprus Dale
- Dimbaza
- Dongwe
- Donny-brook
- Ducats
- Duncan Village
- Dyam-Dyam
- East London
- Eluxolweni
- Ententeni
- Fort Grey
- Fort Murray
- Gately
- Ginsberg
- Gompo
- Gonubie
- Gonubie Manor
- Gonubie Park
- Gqola
- Greenfields
- Gulu
- Hanover
- Igoda Mouth
- Ilitha
- Jafta’s
- Jojweni
- Kayser’s Beach Road
- Khiwane
- Kidd’s Beach
- Kiwane
- Kom Nader
- Kwa-Altile
- Kwa-Ngcamama
- KwaMasingatha
- KwaMdingi
- KwaMpundu
- KwaPosi
- KwaSandile
- Kwelera
- Lujiza
- Lushington
- Macleantown
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- Mamata
- Mcotsho
- Mdantsane
- Mdantsane N
- Mdantsane Unit 5
- Mdantsane Unit 6
- Mncotsho
- Mngoesha
- Mozana
- Nahoon
- Ndevana
- Newlands
- Ntabozuko
- Old Green River
- Orange Grove
- Park Ridge
- Peelton
- Phakamisa
- Pirie Mission
- Potsdam
- Punzana Location
- Qonce
- Quigney
- Rocklands
- Sandile
- Schornville
- Shwele-Shwele
- Southernwood
- Sunnyridge
- Sunrise
- Sunrise-on-Sea
- Thorn Ridge
- Tshabo
- Tyusha
- Vincent
- West Bank
- Willow Park
- Windbreak
- Winterstrand
- Xamini
- Zhikova
- Zwelitsha
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