JOHANNESBURG – Unbiased Electoral Fee (IEC) officers say they won’t be intimidated by protesting Kapok residents and can guarantee a registration level within the space stays open at present.
Residents barricaded roads main into the casual settlement earlier this morning in a bid to maintain the IEC out.
#Elections2016 Kapok residents protesting. Residents say they won’t register to vote. MK pic.twitter.com/JkLvwZQbdb
— EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) April 9, 2016
Final month, residents chased IEC employees away throughout demonstrations over a scarcity of service supply.
Indignant Kapok residents have once more began burning tyres and demonstrating.
Residents say they’re uninterested in empty political guarantees and have vowed to not vote within the upcoming native authorities elections.
Group Chief Hazel Scholtz stated, “I’ve been right here 21 years and I’ve been voting however there’s nothing occurring right here.”
However the IEC’s Masego Sheburi says not everybody holds the identical view.
“We’re constitutionally sure to offer a service for many who need to take part.”
Whereas he and different IEC officers opened a registration level, there was little exercise.
Police assisted the officers to arrange the voter registration station.
#Elections2016 Police clearing up the rubble permitting IEC officers to enter Kapok. MK pic.twitter.com/b4ELjyqUm1
— EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) April 9, 2016
In the meantime, residents who’re up in arms over the shortage of primary providers within the casual settlement, are anticipated to satisfy quickly.
#Elections2016 Kapok group chief Hazel Scholtz says the group is fed up with empty guarantees by the ANC. MK pic.twitter.com/EpB3mGrorS
— EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) April 9, 2016
Cops are monitoring the state of affairs.
IEC HOPES FOR BUSY WEEKEND
The IEC is anticipating a busy weekend as hundreds of registration factors opened their doorways to the general public.
The IEC has despatched out notifications to 5 million individuals, requesting them to replace their tackle particulars.
The fee is making an attempt to adjust to an electoral courtroom ruling that the voters’ roll ought to include addresses, to make sure individuals vote the place they reside.
The IEC’s vice chairperson, Terry Tselane, stated, “We urge each one that has acquired an SMS to please go to the registration station, it is very straightforward – they will simply go onto our web site and fill within the type on-line, print it and ship it at our registration stations.”
Individuals can register between 8am and 5pm right now and tomorrow.
(Edited by Shimoney Regter)