Special voting in the Eastern Cape got off to a rocky start with the taxi violence in Mthatha, stabbing of an IEC officer and glitches at polling stations.
The IEC expects a total of 288 005 special votes to be cast in the Eastern Cape. Picture: The Citizen/Neil McCartney
This also triggered widespread looting by the public, with a truck carrying voters’ rolls and T-shirts of the Economic Freedom Fighters among the looted vehicles. The large majority of these stations were in Port St Johns, where a total of 81 out of the 135 voting stations were still non-operational.
In response to the protests and taxi violence-related incidents, police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nomthetheleli Mene said police would “take strict action against anyone found to be engaging in activities that threaten the safety and security of the public and the integrity of the election process”.
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