Makana municipality has contracted a new service provider, Advance Parking Systems to control the parking system in the Central Business District to provide the public access to local shops and services. This comes after the contract with the previous service provider expired recently after five years of operation.

Eighty previously unemployed members of the community will have temporary employment during the National Arts Festival which runs from 25 June to 6 July 2008 in Grahamstown. The municipality created these vacancies to supplement its workforce which gets stretched during the festival which is in its 34th year this year.

Makana Municipality will soon host Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality when an eight member delegation consisting of councillors and officials comes to the municipality for a 5-day visit. Ekurhuleni, formerly known as the East Rand area in Gauteng, is one of six metropolitan municipalities in the country.