About 200,000 election officials are ready to conduct the election from 7am until 9pm on Wednesday.
Relatively mild and fair weather is predicted by the South African Weather Service as millions of South Africans go to the polls on Wednesday.
He said two stations did not open in Khanyesa, protesters burnt an IEC vehicle and a car belonging to the commission’s area manager was stoned. Despite these incidents, the IEC was confident all special votes would be completed on Tuesday. He said about 200,000 election officials were ready to conduct the election from 7am until 9pm on Wednesday.
He also announced that special votes from 113 of the 121 foreign missions were received by April 27. The outstanding batches of votes to come from Algiers in Algeria, Brussels in Belgium, Shanghai in China, Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Asmara in Eritrea, Tokyo in Japan, Sao Tome in Sao Tome and Principe, and Caracas in Venezuela were en route.
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