{"id":967524,"date":"2024-05-30T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967524"},"modified":"2024-05-30T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T07:00:20","slug":"iec-commends-citizens-who-queued-for-longer-hours-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/iec-commends-citizens-who-queued-for-longer-hours-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"IEC commends citizens who queued for longer hours to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Electoral Commission has commended voters who were in queues until the early hours of this morning<\/a> waiting to cast their votes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Majority of voting stations closed late last night because of long queues of voters that they needed to clear.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Determined to cast their vote\u2026.
\nAlmost three hours after polls closed.#Sabcnews<\/a> #SAElections<\/a> #SAVOTES24<\/a> @HerbertMemela<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/s8Cno5QFQ4<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Nozintombi (@nozintombimiya) May 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

About 10% of the votes have been counted thus far.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0<\/span>uMkhonto<\/span>\u00a0we\u00a0<\/span>Sizwe<\/span>\u00a0party is leading in\u00a0<\/span>KwaZulu<\/span>-Natal, followed by the African National Congress,<\/span> while the Inkatha Freedom Party<\/span>\u00a0is in third position.<\/span><\/p>\n

The commission\u2019s National General Manager of Operations, Granville Abrahams says,\u00a0<\/span>\u201cGiven the challenges that we\u2019ve had, we\u2019ve issued instructions to our stations during the day after consulting with political parties as well, that we just go entirely manual to ensure that the queues start moving and during the course of the day- that was what we had implemented. And I must say, I must commend people that actually stood there in the queues patiently and some into the early hours to make sure that they exercise their democratic choice.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Snaking long queues well into the night at Fleurhof Primary in Johannesburg:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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FleurHof Primary school long snaking queues.#sabcnews<\/a>#SAElections<\/a>
\n##SAVOTES24<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/3q0KEaJjtj<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Nozintombi (@nozintombimiya) May 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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