The Coega Development Corporation approached the high court in Gqeberha on Tuesday to apply for an interdict preventing small business owners from protesting near its premises.by hundreds of Small, Medium and Micro-enterprises last week. The protest was the latest in a battle that started in October over the allocation to SMMEs of a 30% share of municipal tenders in Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality.
According to its court papers, the CDC wants the court to prevent the two businessmen from entering its premises without written consent from CDC official Peter Craig Luckman. The CDC accuses the business owners of protesting, and of verbally threatening and intimidating CDC employees. The CDC is also asking that no protests be allowed within a 100m radius of the Coega Special Economic Zone.