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Elections cannot be declared free and fair –  Another scandal of abandoned and burned ballot boxes is facing the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in the North West

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Another scandal of abandoned ballot boxes is facing the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in the North West.

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) says it found two ballot boxes abandoned in the Lekwa Taemane Local Municipality, that includes Bloemhof.

The party says these boxes were found in Ward 4 near Bloemhof Primary School, earmarked as a voting station by the IEC.

OFM News previously reported that two ballot boxes were found burned in Ikageng Extension 19, Potchefstroom, on Monday.

The EFF has since called on the IEC to investigate the incident and bring those found to be on the wrong side of the Electoral Act to book.

Earlier national police spokesperson, Vish Naidoo, said at least 20 people have been arrested so far for being in contravention of the Electoral Act after they allegedly nabbed for trying to duplicate their vote.

He says 19 of those arrested in KwaZulu-Natal were denied bail but did not specify as to
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O dear, what a blunder for Juju, he fumes as IEC official tells his wife to remove fake nails before voting (video’s)

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EFF leader Julius Malema was on Wednesday irked by an IEC staff member who apparently instructed his wife Mantwa Matlala-Malema to remove her fake nails before she could vote.

The pair were voting at the Mponegele Primary School in Seshego, Limpopo.

Malema said he found the instruction “bizzare” because there was no such a rule and he approached the electoral officer who cleared Mantwa to vote.

Malema said: “There was some IEC staff member who said to my wife she must take off her nail so that they can put a mark and I found that bizzare. You cannot have such a patriarchal arrangement happening inside the voting station. The electoral officer came and said she can vote with her nail.

“But the person who puts a mark on people, she has a pair of scissors and gives it to people to take off their nails, so I do not know how many people’s nails were taken off.

“It must never be costly for people to vo
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The handling of any electoral material by any party agent is strictly prohibited so the IEC removed an official who allowed a ‘Party Agent’ to assist in transfer of votes (video)

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The Electoral Commission (IEC) has removed a Deputy Presiding Officer from a voting station in Benoni, Ekurhuleni following an investigation into a video showing a party agent assisting with the transfer of special votes. The video below is of Ermelo incident, we could not trace the one for Benoni. So this is how the election is going, you can now expect lots of ‘crooking’, will this election still be fair?

The video, which went viral yesterday, showed a party agent helping to transfer special votes in their double envelopes from a ballot bag used during home visits to a ballot box in the voting station.

Irregular transfer procedure condemned

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Can and will a free and fair election to take place on 8 May after election boycotters already started to wreak havoc by torching a North West school just for being voting station?

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A school was set alight in Kraaipan outside Mahikeng in the North West, allegedly by a group of people intending to boycott the general election on Wednesday.

Tlhakajeng Primary School was allegedly torched at the weekend by a group of people who were intending to boycott elections due to service delivery related problems. The school was one of the voting stations where people in the area were expected to cast their votes.

North West MEC for Community Safety and Transport Management Mpho Motlhabane called for an investigation and the arrest of the people responsible for the torching of the school.

“Destroying public and private property is a crime and our police will not leave any stone unturned. No one is above the law, if a crime has been committed, there must be an investigation and perpetrators must be arrested.

“If people want to boycott elections they must not distract those who want to vote because it is their democrati
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