By Everson Luhanga
About 60 uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party members tried to get access to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) Booysens Warehouse situated along 1st Street in Johannesburg.
Scrolla.Africa has learned that police officers had to be called in to disperse the crowd which looked determined to gain access to the IEC offices in Booysens, south of Johannesburg.
Sources close to the offices told Scrolla.Africa that police managed to control the situation. “The situation is contained and the police have enough manpower.
“MK party members at the IEC offices tried to gain entry into the buildings,” said one source.
Party leader and former president Jacob Zuma called on MK supporters to take to the streets to show their unhappiness at the election results, claiming that over nine million votes were unaccounted for in the 29 May elections.
Zuma was speaking at a press briefing on Sunday. “We have presented concrete evidence to the IEC showing widespread irregularities in the voting process and the voting system but our concerns have fallen on deaf ears,” he claimed.
The MK party boycotted the first sitting of Parliament last Friday but attended the first sitting of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature.
The party received over 45% of the votes in KZN and 15% of seats in the National Assembly but continues to claim it was cheated.
The South African Police Service has deployed special units in KwaZulu-Natal in places they suspect to be hotspots of violence due to claims of vote rigging.
Pictured above: IEC ballot boxes.
Source: File
