A vote in remembrance of Durban’s Marchbishop - The Denis Hurley Centre has helped restore the franchise to 250 homeless people living in Durban’s ward 28
The bulk of the voting districts have opened on time; the punters are already in the queues.This is where we’d usually stop you and ask you to pay to read this story, but this week M&G is free so that everyone can access the information they need in the run up to the municipal elections on 1 November.
Not much in the way of queues – certainly none of the mad rush to the polls that I’d expected from the number of daily complaints on the ward’s WhatsApp group – or in the way of unhappy citizens wanting to close down the polling stations.
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