MarianhillA group in party clothing held election officials hostage, the electoral commission said.
The confrontation disrupted 2 of the warehouse’s 24 voting stations a day before South Africa’s local elections.
They demanded special-vote ballot boxes be moved, saying the building was insecure, at a site sharing an entrance with a library.
Chief executive Sy Mamabolo called them alleged uMkhonto weSizwe supporters, but the party’s Willies Mchunu doubts they were members.
Polls open Wednesday with 165 KwaZulu-Natal stations rated high-risk by police.
How each outlet framed it
- Daily Maverick leans critical
- details the Dassenhoek warehouse confrontation over special-vote boxes and the 24 stations it serves
Sources: Daily Maverick