Around 20 disgruntled Cambridge Township residents marched to the ANC’s Dr WB Rubusana regional offices in East London to express their dissatisfaction with their ward 16 councillor candidate whom they say had been forced down on them by the party’s heavyweights.
The residents are rejecting the name of Rogers Relu, who came second during the party’s branch general meeting, and are calling for Mbulelo Vula to be the candidate after topping the list, the residents said.
The march mirrored other marches currently taking place across the country with ANC underfire over allegations of candidate list manipulation.
Speaking to DispatchLive organiser of the protest Xoliswa Ntuse said: "There’s corruption involved because Vula got 56 votes while Relu got 36, the ANC wants to choose a councillor for us yet they are not the ones who live in Cambridge township”.
Ntuse said Vula lives in the same ward with them and knows all the issues affecting people of the area while Relu lives elsewhere.
Nonzima Fela said the ANC is deliberately giving them a candidate who resides elsewhere so that he cannot be reachable when a need to account arises.
“We want a councillor that is part of our community who knows exactly what the community needs.”
The local government elections are just seven days away.
Cambridge residents express their displeasure at ANC candidate
The residents are rejecting the name of Rogers Relu, who came second during the party’s branch general meeting, and are calling for Mbulelo Vula to be the candidate after topping the list, the residents said.
The march mirrored other marches currently taking place across the country with ANC underfire over allegations of candidate list manipulation.
Speaking to DispatchLive organiser of the protest Xoliswa Ntuse said: "There’s corruption involved because Vula got 56 votes while Relu got 36, the ANC wants to choose a councillor for us yet they are not the ones who live in Cambridge township”.
Ntuse said Vula lives in the same ward with them and knows all the issues affecting people of the area while Relu lives elsewhere.
Nonzima Fela said the ANC is deliberately giving them a candidate who resides elsewhere so that he cannot be reachable when a need to account arises.
“We want a councillor that is part of our community who knows exactly what the community needs.”
The local government elections are just seven days away.
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