Protesting community members wreaked havoc yesterday in KwaSithebe, the economic hub of Mandeni in northern KwaZulu-Natal. The protesters blockaded roads and set fire to four factories, a truck, offices, five containers and two vehicles over the axing of a chief and inclusion of an ANC councillor as a candidate for the upcoming local government poll.The protest spilled over from last week, when 3500 people went on the rampage, demanding that the chief be reinstated."The first demand is that the removed chief should be reinstated. The second one is that ANC should rework its candidate list for the local government elections," said Ricardo Mthembu, the chairman of the ANC in KwaDukuza region.He said the community had been misled into thinking that Bhekithemba Magwaza would be elected as a councillor in the coming elections."It is not so. We are still going through a process where a community will elect its preferred candidates," Mthembu said.The department of co-operative government and traditional affairs and the ANC will meet the community tomorrow.Police spokesman Major Thulani Zwane said the protest started at 10pm on Sunday."The protest turned violent when four factories, a truck, two vehicles and five containers were set alight," Zwane said.Police vehicles were also damaged and a number of computers stolen from a factory office, according to the police.The computers were later recovered and 120 people were arrested and charged with public violence, arson and malicious damage to property."More arrests are expected and more manpower has been deployed to take control of the situation," said Zwane.The police's public order unit and private security officials tried in vain to contain the crowd."Two recycling factories and one pallet factory were gutted by fire. They tried to burn two other factories, but the fire was contained before there was any extensive damage," IPSS Security spokesman Dylan Meyrick said.A total of nine vehicles were burnt during the protests."The roads were blocked and people could not come to work. There were a few nightshift workers, but no one was injured," Meyrick said...