ANC KZN Official Siboniso Duma Caught Spreading False Threat Claims — Chesterville Video Proves It

Siboniso Duma stood in front of a camera this week and told thousands of followers that members of Amawele ase Chesterville face active threats for backing the African National Congress — a statement community leaders flatly reject as fabricated.

The clip, shared across multiple platforms, shows the ANC KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Task Team member delivering the allegation with conviction, citing no evidence, naming no perpetrators, and providing zero documentation to support the charge. Residents from Chesterville, a township west of Durban’s city centre, immediately pushed back, with several insisting no such intimidation campaign exists on the ground.

Local ward committee members told this publication that Duma never contacted anyone in Amawele ase Chesterville before broadcasting the claim, and that no formal complaint regarding threats reached either community structures or the South African Police Service’s Chesterville satellite station. SAPS investigators confirmed to Opera News Hub on Wednesday that no related docket has been opened at any nearby precinct.

Political analysts tracking ANC messaging in the province noted that fear-based narratives tend to spike during internal mobilisation drives, particularly when branch membership figures disappoint organisers. Duma currently serves on the KZN PTT, a structure tasked with stabilising party operations after years of factional bloodshed that left dozens of cadres dead across the region — a backdrop that gives unverified threat rhetoric outsized emotional weight.

What struck multiple viewers who watched the recording was the deliberate framing: Duma positioned himself against a plain wall, held his phone at eye level, and spoke in the measured cadence of someone reciting a prepared script rather than reacting to breaking danger — details three separate commenters flagged within minutes of the upload going live.

As of Thursday morning, the ANC KZN provincial office had not issued any statement distancing the organisation from Duma’s remarks, and the PTT member himself had not responded to requests for clarification sent via WhatsApp and email. The Amawele ase Chesterville collective released a brief public rebuttal describing the footage as politically motivated, but stopped short of calling for disciplinary proceedings. Whether the party will hold one of its own provincial officials accountable for spreading unverified claims about its own supporters remains the question nobody in Luthuli House appears eager to answer.

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