WATCH: Former IECSouthAfrica commissioner and vice chair Terry Tselane comments on the outcry on social media surrounding THOSE Wellington videos. Also read the IEC W Cape's explanation of what happened there: Elections2019 Elections2019Results
A Facebook post by student Chumani Siimane purportedly shows voters at the polling station divided into separate lines for whites and blacks. Siimane told IOL that a group of around 30 students travelled to the voting station from a nearby college in two minibus taxis.
According to Siimane, the IEC officials were initially reluctant to assist them and tried to send them to a different voting station some distance away but the students refused. She says they were also told to buy their own pens as there were not enough pens for them to fill out the required paperwork.
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