ANC challenges more than 3,000 voter addresses
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Sowetan
The ANC says more than 3,000 voters used incorrect addresses in the electoral register and has filed about 35 formal objections. In Sebokeng, some of the disputed addresses include a house occupied by a single man, Sowetan reports.
The ANC, South Africa’s ruling party, is challenging more than 3,000 addresses used for voter registration and has raised the possibility of electoral fraud. The party’s Gauteng branch filed about 35 formal objections with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on Friday, according to Sowetan.
The ANC says, in particular, that 1,582 voters allegedly used a property on Lerothodi Street in Sebokeng as their residential address. The party is also challenging the use of the address at 14659 Khaketla Street, which is actually a Usave supermarket and was allegedly declared by 635 voters, as well as an address in Lenasia used by 785 voters even though it corresponds to Lenasia South District Hospital, according to Sowetan.
The manager of the Usave supermarket said the store employed about 20 people and therefore could not correspond to the 635 voters cited by the ANC. The chief executive of Lenasia South Hospital also said the facility, which receives outpatients, was unaware that its address had been used for voter registration, Sowetan reports.
ANC coordinator in Gauteng Sochayile Khanyile explained that the objections were based in particular on observations by party agents concerning discrepancies between recorded results and those captured, as well as other elements requiring examination, according to Sowetan.
