After two years of vandalism, businesses from the Perseverance Industrial Area in Nelson Mandela Bay have joined forces with the metro to get a crucial set of robots working - and fitted a camera to prevent it from being stripped again.

For the past two years, the robots at the Perseverance intersection in Nelson Mandela Bay, a site of frequent motor vehicle accidents, have not been working.

But on Friday, following a joint project between the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality and the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber's Perseverance Geographic Cluster, order at the intersection was restored.

The road links the towns of Kariega and Despatch.

Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber spokesperson Sibongile Dimbaza said on Thursday, 21 November," The traffic lights serve as a key traffic control point for the industrial area...[this] economic hub had been out of service since vandals repeatedly targeted it. The broken signal caused significant safety concerns and traffic delays for both businesses and residents, negatively impacting the flow of goods and services in the region," said Dimbaza.

He said this restoration of traffic lights was a major success for Perseverance, one the oldest industrial zones in the Metro that contributed 5% of the total municipal rates in the metro.

Speaking about the success of the restoration, chairperson of the Perseverance Business Association Siyolo Dick emphasised that the collaboration between the private sector and public...