The Uitenhage Customer Care Centre was among several municipal buildings forcefully closed by hundreds of small business owners and supporters on Tuesday. They are demanding that the municipality guarantee that they will benefit from all major local government contracts. Photo: Thamsanqa MbovaneOver 300 small and medium business owners in Nelson Mandela Bay closed down several municipal buildings and the offices of several councillors on Tuesday.
Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu said protests started after 6:30am with about 60 people who blocked Harrower Road in North End.Public Order Policing attended the protest and stun grenades were fired to disperse the crowd. Three people were arrested for public violence but were later released.
Chairperson of the Local Business Committee , Glen Tsomo, which claims about 5,000 members in Nelson Mandela Bay, disputed allegations that the protests were not peaceful. “We did not disrupt traffic during the protest. They arrested some of our members for no reason.”Some protesters then went to Bay West, where Mayor Johnson was attending an oversight visit with Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Patricia de Lille and Deputy Minister Noxolo Kiviet.
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Unbelievable how can incompetent people get tenders it's arrogant corruption. Wasting taxpayers money.
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Would be interesting to know how many of those 300 businesses and owners are registered with SARS.
Bunch of criminals who need to be arrested.
As long as they will deliver and not go ANC on the people why not give them?
Sounds fair. 😐