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NATIONAL NEWS & VIDEO - A viral video of Newcastle Deputy Mayor Musa ‘Sugar’ Thwala losing control of his recently purchased ‘gusheshe’ at a spinning event and ploughing into a crowd of spectators, begins with a peppy commentator shouting enthusiastically into the microphone.
- A gusheshe is BMW 325i (e30)
The spinning event took place at the old Monte Vista Casino in Newcastle on 27 November, and spectators said the event was authorised and that there were ample police and paramedics present.
“Sugar, baba! Team Sugar, baba!” yells the commentator and Thwala revs his engine in response.
Sand flies as Thwala completes his first spin and the commentators roars: “Haibo! Haibo!”
The crowd goes wild. “Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay! Haibo!” the commentator continues, drumming up more cheers for Thwala. “Deputy mayor, baba! Deputy mayor!”
Less than 20 seconds after Thwala takes the wheel, however, he loses control of the vehicle, first careening into a stack of two tyres sending a hapless photographer tumbling headlong from where he was perched on top, then Thwala slams through the makeshift barricade into the crowd of spectators.
The commentator goes dead quiet – but then Thwala goes right on spinning as if nothing had happened.
“From how that photographer fell, I thought for certain he must have broken his neck. I was shocked that he didn’t. He was so lucky not to be badly injured,” said a spectator. “One lady, who was in the crowd, had to be carried away in a stretcher and there were other people who were also hurt.”
“The crowd was so upset. People started booing Thwala and he still didn’t stop, just carried on spinning. When he was finished and he finally came out of the vehicle, he even had the audacity to take a bow in front of the crowd. I was so disgusted,” added the spectator who did not want to be named.
VIDEO: Watch the incident here:
Comment from the police, the speaker of the council and spectators, as well as ‘Spin-King’ Preshu Singh, will be published at a later stage.
