SAElections2019 About 2,000 people are registered to vote at Matthew Goniwe Memorial High School, but by 10am only about 500 had turned up.
The sprawling township - a mixture of modest homes, RDP houses and informal settlements - is home to hundreds of thousands of voters, who collectively will have a significant impact on the outcome of the Western Cape provincial elections.
According to a senior IEC official, many of them were registered to vote in other provinces. Another official at the OR Tambo Hall voting station shared the same sentiment.Fikiswa Kuzeko, 59, braved the cold and rain to vote, but said she was not as enthusiastic as she was in 1994 when she voted for the first time.
Kuzeko gave up her shack in the township’s QQ section - her home since 1989 - to live in her daughter’s backyard. “My neighbour and her daughter died last year when their shack burned. It is sad because politicians only listen to us when elections are close.”
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