With less than a day before the local government elections, residents of Govan Mbeki say they are not going to vote because apparently the candidate is not the one they picked. The one that is hanged in every corner is a choice of the mayor of Port Elizabeth, Nceba Faku.
Govan Mbeki is a town ship between Mission vale and Kleinskool in port Elizabeth an its resident are angry and they are saying they are not going to vote as the candidate is not the one they want. They say they elected someone else but now they are not seeing the person’s picture hanged in every corner they turn to. So they came to the decision that they are not going to vote in the upcoming elections, saying that they are going to cause chaos, some even say they will close the gates of the voting station and if someone try to go to vote they will beat him/her up and even go to an extent of burning down their houses.
There are two sides in this community, one that is FOR the candidate that was picked by the mayor and the other side is AGAINST. Siyavuya is for the candidate that was elected by the mayor, he said “people don’t want Cynthia because she is colored; they say they want a black councilor, but then even if she is colored she is still a member of the ANC, that’s why I’m not against her”. People of the community feel that for the mayor to change their candidate was rather disrespectful, him thinking that they can’t pick the right candidate. They say when the allegedly attacked the president of RSA, Jacob Zuma, they wanted to tell him this thing. Nceba Lloyd is against the ‘picked’ candidate, he said” I hate what the mayor did because, who we choose is our choice and for the fact that he did that I’m not going to bother waking up on their 18th, I’ve had enough of politicians thinking that, we can’t think of ourselves”. Many members of the community say they will not be voting. I say let us just wait and see what will happen tomorrow
