YOUTH SUMMONED OVER ANTI-TIMOTHY CHANTS

BIG BEND – A group of disgruntled supporters of losing candidates under Nkilongo Inkhundla are in trouble with traditional authorities of Lunkuntfu area after reportedly chanting anti-Timothy Myeni slogans.

Myeni is the MP-elect for Nkilongo Inkhundla following his stunning victory in the September 21 elections, where he defeated five other candidates. The disgruntled group includes mostly young people, who are residents of Lunkuntfu, a poor community lying in the periphery of the Big Bend sugar plantations and along the foot of the Lubombo mountains. The group is accused of chanting anti-Timothy Myeni slogans and further hurling disparaging words towards an aspiring politician from the area who lost in the Primary Elections.

“They accused the aspiring politician, who lost in the primary elections, of supporting Timothy and working against and further de-campaigning their preferred candidate who lost in the Secondary Elections to Timothy,” said a source familiar with the details of the matter. The young people were reportedly from the counting centre and had just learnt of Myeni’s victory when they allegedly made the chants that have got them into trouble with traditional authorities. “Upon returning to Lunkuntfu after the results had been pronounced, they started chanting and blowing Vuvuzelas. They were chanting phansi nga! (name of the candidate who lost in the Primary Elections),” added the source.

This did not go down well with traditional authorities, who felt that the disgruntled group was being ‘disrespectful’ to both the family of the aspiring politicians and to traditional authorities of the area. As such, all the young people who allegedly made the chants were summoned to the umphakatsi (royal kraal) last Saturday. Their hearing was initially scheduled to take place at 11am but it was later postponed to 2pm. “The headman (indvuna) will only be available after lunch hence the meeting will now start at 2pm,” a member of the inner council told this reporter when he arrived at the royal kraal.

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