Mayor’s supporters block roads
This followed the eThekwini Mayor's failure to secure votes in his home ward for the party regional chairmanship.
POLICE had to guard the intense situation at Inchanga on Thursday morning after the residents blocked the roads and burnt tyres.
About 1 000 people took to the roads to express their anger and the dissatisfaction with a branch meeting that was held in Inchanga.
This followed the eThekwini Mayor, James Nxumalo’s failure to secure votes in his home ward for the party regional chairmanship to his arch-rival, councillor Zandile Gumede, at the ANC branch meeting on Sunday, 4 October.
Nxumalo’s supporters blocked the roads on Thursday, demanding re-elections as only 16 people out of 400 nominated the mayor to be a candidate for regional chairman, while Gumede received 300 votes.
One of the supporters said the people who were voting on that meeting were not from Inchanga area. “Most people were transported from Hammarsdale, they are not from this area. We are behind Nxumalo 100 per cent.”
The supporters said it was very strange that people from Inchanga were left out and were not in the voters’ list. “We were not even allowed in that meeting,” he said.
Other reports have claimed that Nxumalo’s supporters were locked outside the gates after they went out to buy food and only Gumede’s supporters were served meals at the meeting.
