2019 ELECTIONS: Inside KZN: Poll violence and disruptions are the main concern for the province’s IEC By Aisha Abdool Karim
“We have to spend much more time with political parties because of the history of this province,” Ntomb’futhi Masinga, acting Independent Electoral Commission electoral officer for KwaZulu-Natal , told Daily Maverick.
“It’s the worst province they could have done this to,” said Masinga. “It’s one of the provinces where we just have too many stakeholders compared to other provinces.” “Unfortunately in KZN, we’re one of those provinces where people even resort to killing each other,” said Masinga. One area of concern for the IEC is the uThukela district, near Lesotho, particularly the area that was formerly part of the Indaka municipality. Since the Indaka and Ladysmith municipalities merged to form the Alfred Duma municipality in 2016, community members feel “their plight has been forgotten”, according to Masinga.
“Those people have now elevated their plight to that of Alexandra and they say they are not prepared to talk to us until the president comes and talks to them, because they have been like the forgotten people of the province.” “In the past, there hasn’t been this concerted effort and organised groupings that are mobilising against the employment of foreign nationals in the trucking industry.”
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