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Nelson Mandela Bay Ward 20 candidate councillor Morris Ngabase is ready to hit the ground running and will fulfil promises made in his first stint as the ward’s representative.

Voting got off to a slow start in a potentially crucial by-election in Nelson Mandela Bay’s Ward 20 on Wednesday, but an electoral official said he expected turnout to pick up later in the day.

The ANC has retained Nelson Mandela Bay’s ward 20 with Morris Ngabase winning Wednesday’s by-election.

ANC Eastern Cape co-ordinator Lulama Ngcukayitobi has lashed out at the police’s investigation of three Nelson Mandela Bay murders and one attempted murder, with the killers still on the loose.

Days before the ANC Eastern Cape elective conference, another ANC councillor was gunned down, along with his acting branch secretary, in Nelson Mandela Bay on Monday.

A four-way race is under way for the vacant Ward 20 councillor’s seat in Nelson Mandela Bay.

It is time for a special task team similar to the one formed to investigate political violence and killings in KwaZulu-Natal to set up shop in the Eastern Cape. Political violence must be stamped out immediately in the province — including Nelson Mandela Bay — and the only way for that to happen is for arrests to be made.

Death threats from a person claiming to be a hitman and a feeling of being followed have yet another ANC ward councillor on edge.

A by-election in Gqeberha’s Ward 20, which includes part of Kwazakhele, will be held on May 4 because of the killing of ANC councillor Zwelandile Booi.

ANC regional chair Babalwa Lobishe confirmed that Ward 20 councillor Mzwandile Booi was killed.