Mandela Bay Theatre Complex

About

The Mandela Bay Theatre Complex, MBTC, was declared as a Schedule 3A public entity on 26 May 2021, and gazetted on 04 June 2021. The call for the new Council was issued in October 2021. The entity became operational as a declared institution on 1 April 2022 with the new Council appointed on 02 June 2022. The MBTC succeeds the previous Board of the Port Elizabeth Opera House NPC, which oversaw the longest running theatre in Africa since 1892.