A city manager, politicians and a businessman and his wife spent the night behind bars after the Hawks arrested them in various parts of Nelson Mandela Bay on Thursday.
Discord, disorder and a brawl over a ballot box amid this high drama, mayor Eugene Johnson was booted out of office on Wednesday ten months into the job.
The investigation into the brazen killings and attempted murders of ANC officials in Nelson Mandela Bay has been escalated to the police’s top brass, with the elite Provincial Organised Crime Unit now hunting those responsible.
Allegations that a bodyguard was brandishing an automatic firearm at a voting station where KwaNobuhle’s Ward 43 by-election is set to take place on Wednesday will be probed by the electoral commission.