GAWUZELA ‘KILLS’ GUNDWANE’S POLITICAL CAREER

SIPHOFANENI – The people have spoken; Gundwane Gamedze’s 20 years of reign has come to an end.

This follows a tense voting exercise, which saw Mduduzi ‘Gawuzela’ Simelane coming out victorious with 4 480 votes, making him the new Siphofaneni Constituency Member of Parliament. Simelane’s runner up was his arguably toughest competitor, Gamedze who got 3 332 votes. The votes counting exercise, which lasted for about six hours saw Gaw’zela, as he is popularly known, breathing a huge sigh of relief as it was unclear as to who would come out victorious between him and Gamedze who was not present during the counting.

More excited were hundreds of Simelane’s fans who started celebrating about an hour before the end of counting of votes. It was the popular vosho dance and chanting of his name that was the highlight of the celebrations while counting of votes proceeded. His hit song ‘Thuma mina’ was unapologetically played in different car radios as voters continued with their celebrations. Like a controllable fire dosed with fuel, Simelane’s supporters went wild after the results were officially announced. They took to the streets in jubilation as they chanted his name. In an organised fashion, the supporters jogged from Siphofaneni town centre to the Siphofaneni High School intersection.

As a group of the supporters jogged, they were followed by a convoy of overloaded vehicles. Some of the supporters who were on board the vehicles sat on the roofs of the cars. In what could be interpreted as dicing with danger, the supporters went to the extent of sitting on the moving cars’ bonnets and danced in excitement.
Notably, a majority of the supporters were the youth, while a few were elderly women. The dare devilish behaviour of the supporters did not end with dancing on moving cars, but it went on to car spinning and drifting. Whistles and screams were heard as different cars took turns spinning and drifting on the public road, bringing traffic to a standstill.

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