Northern Cape voters to head back to polls following election station chaos
The community in the Siyancuma Local Municipality will head back to the polls following an incident last week where cast ballot papers were destroyed before they could be counted.
Alpha Ramushwana
Mponegele Primary School in Polokwane voting station LGE 2026. Picture: Simphiwe Nkosi/EWN
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The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has set 18 November as the new voting date for the Bongani Gemeenskapsaal voting district in the Northern Cape.
The community in the Siyancuma Local Municipality will head back to the polls following an incident last week where cast ballot papers were destroyed before they could be counted.
It is understood that a group of people stormed the local voting station and destroyed more than 100 uncounted ballot papers.
The IEC said the revote at the Bongani Gemeenskapsaal voting district is intended to give community members a fair and equal opportunity to exercise their democratic right to vote.
Special voting will take place on Monday and Tuesday next week, ahead of the main election day on Wednesday, 18 November.
This will allow elderly people, persons living with disabilities and essential services workers to cast their ballots before the main voting day.
Only voters registered at the affected voting station will be allowed to participate in the revote on 18 November.
While the IEC had previously ordered recounts in five wards across Tshwane and Mangaung, the Bongani Gemeenskapsaal voting district is the only one in the country where a revote has been ordered.