DA federal council chair Helen Zille was dragged out of the Fernwood Primary School voting station in Bethelsdorp by the police on Monday.
The internal report continues that Zille claimed an officer “instructed her to leave the premises and threatened to arrest her and put her in the back of a police vehicle”.
“It is also reported that one individual in this incident was taking a video and police took the video away from this person, and it was later returned. This person has also opened a case of theft against those police officers,” said Langa. The phone belonged to Zille, but was being used by someone else to record the incident, according to information Ipid had received.
“They were entirely disinterested in resolving the extreme slowness of the voting process and, over the course of several interactions, it was plain that they were only interested in asserting their authority rather than assisting voters. Zille said when she was told to leave the station, she argued she had the required authorisation to be there.
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