ANC, EFF supporters exchanged blows inside a polling station in Polokwane

TWO members of ANC and EFF engaged in a physical fight inside the polling station at Flora Park Comprehensive Primary School in Polokwane, Limpopo, on Wednesday, leading to further delays in the voting process.

The long queue outside the polling station was at a standstill for almost two hours in the evening when an IEC official moved to inform the voters the reason for the delay.

She informed the voters that the police were called and the two apparently drunk members were detained.

“Some people come here drunk,” she said.

It was then that the long queue went on a slow move again until the last vote was casted at around 2am.

On Tuesday, police arrested two women and a man for intimidation at Runnymede polling station.

Police spokesperson, Brigadier Hlulani Mashaba, said a female complainant was confronted by two women and a man who asked her which party she will be voting for. She refused to tell them.

“The suspects threatened her that she should vote for a certain political party because if she doesn’t she will be placing her life in danger,” Mashaba said.

Mashaba also reported that a man who went on the run after he disrupted a campaign by a certain political party in Ga-Seleka village outside Lephalale was arrested on Tuesday.