UPDATE: Witnesses say Bay brawl was racially fuelled
Waterfront fight night - still no case opened with police
WHILE the exact cause of a brutal brawl at the Tuzi Gazi Waterfront in the early hours of Saturday morning remains speculative, witnesses have come forward to say the fight was racially fuelled.
Earlier this week a video emerged of the fight, showing how one man used his car as a battering ram to fend off a group of attackers viciously beating his friend.
The car hit at least two of the fighters, one of whom stands up immediately.
Amid the chaos, gunshots ring out.
In a strange twist however, Richards Bay police have confirmed that by Wednesday morning, no charges had been laid.
‘That’s unbelievable,’ said one witness, who chose to remain anonymous.
‘Some of those guys were surely injured to some extent.’
The witness says he was leaving the waterfront at around 2.30am when he found his path blocked by the groups of fighting men.
‘I came out into the road and just saw everyone having a go at each other,’ he said.
‘As I watched I saw a group of white guys dragging an Indian guy out into the road. Then another Indian chap started smacking people with a baseball bat. It was chaos.’
Saturday night fight night
The witness also said that he had heard of a similar situation the previous weekend, and the weekend before.
‘It sounds like there is a fight at the waterfront every weekend now,’ he said.
Another man, who told the Zululand Observer he is acquainted with some of those involved in the fight, said his friends were told that Tuzi Gazi ‘was for white people’.
‘It’s pure speculation, but it seems like there is a vigilante group that is intent on taking Tuzi Gazi for themselves and that is how all this trouble started.’
Despite a request for those involved to come forward and speak to the Zululand Observer, none have done so.
The video, published by the ZO on YouTube on Sunday, has been viewed just over 17 000 times and shared more than 900 times.
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