Durban - The jamboree that characterised the DA’s election campaigning in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday was dampened when a man wielding a chainsaw charged at a vehicle the party’s mayoral candidate Mergan Chetty was seated in, which
was part of a cavalcade.
Chetty said on Sunday that the attacker sliced off the side mirror with the saw.
“I shouted at him and asked him what was wrong,” he said, adding a DA flag from the vehicle got tangled in the chainsaw, causing it to seize.
Minutes afterwards, as soon as police from the back reached the front of the convoy, the man fled, dropping the chainsaw. Another person picked it up and ran away.
The incident happened in Ward 15, Imbali Township, at about 3.30pm.
Chetty said when the 75-car motorcade arrived at the ward, the road was littered with bricks and stones thrown by an angry mob of about 30 that continued to throw things at the cavalcade. A traffic vehicle escorting the vehicles did nothing to stop
the mob’s conduct, he said.
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