{"id":967511,"date":"2024-05-30T01:47:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967511"},"modified":"2024-05-30T01:47:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:47:57","slug":"sixteen-suspects-arrested-over-election-related-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/sixteen-suspects-arrested-over-election-related-offences\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen suspects arrested over election related offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gauteng police have confirmed that 16 election-related arrests have been made since the poll date was proclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>177 voting stations were classified as high risk, out of over 2 700 in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng provincial police commissioner Lieutenant General Tommy Mthombeni says: \u201cSince the President [Cyril Ramaphosa] made a determination [proclamation] and clearly indicated [that] we\u2019re going to have elections on May 29, you know for a fact that within the province people removed other political parties posters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, we have made some arrests. Thus far we have arrested a total of 16 [suspects] for elections-related matters,\u201d adds Mthombeni.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, with 131 Voting Districts completed, the provincial ballots show some differences in the votes that count towards the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that those stations account for only 0.3% of the more than 23 000 around the country, which means they could differ from the final count.<\/p>\n<p>The DA leads as expected in the Western Cape despite a good showing so far for the Patriotic Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The PA is also doing well in the Northern Cape, behind the DA and the ANC.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC dominates the Eastern Cape and Free State, followed by the EFF and the DA.<\/p>\n<p>MK lies second in KwaZulu-Natal but closely follows the ANC with 230 votes to 240.<\/p>\n<p>The EFF is not leading any province but still lies third overall nationally.<\/p>\n<p>The DA has a solid early lead in Gauteng, ahead of the FF-Plus with the ANC third.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The video below reports more on the story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/973H4fGiKww?si=B3CHiDnB-d-cf2TF\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes Gauteng police have confirmed that 16 election-related arrests have been made since the poll date was proclaimed. 177 voting stations were classified as high risk, out of over 2 700 in the province. Gauteng provincial police commissioner Lieutenant General Tommy Mthombeni says: \u201cSince the President [Cyril Ramaphosa] made a determination [proclamation] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":967512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[2876,309,234,617,1609,1897,974],"class_list":["post-967511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anc-dominates-the-eastern-cape-and-free-state","tag-cyril-ramaphosa","tag-da","tag-eff","tag-gauteng-police","tag-may-29","tag-mk-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}