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Miles writes:

Port St. Johns is a backwater town on the East Coast between East London and Durban with virtually no infrastructure and the only financial resource, apart from the odd wandering backpacker, is the sale of weed known as Transkei Gold.

So, not a place for making money, unless you happen to be the municipal manager, one Ncedile Jakuja, who serves a mainly rural population of 143 000. However, his annual salary of R 1.2 mill. is on a par with his peers at Metros such as Buffalo City and Nelson Mandela Bay.

So, with an annual budget of R 101 million, the municipal manager takes home a whopping one percent of that total. PSJ is also notorious for shark attacks on surfers at the infamous Second beach. Now there's another voracious, merciless predator making a killing on the Wild coast!!

Miles

Miles

Cuan MILES has been drawing for as long as he remembers. Trained as a graphic designer, his first job was as a layout assistant at Perskor in Johannesburg, where he…>

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