EASTERN CAPE. – Two women, aged 57 and 61 respectively, have been arrested after allegedly posing as officials of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and attempting to collect voting material at the Ngcobo police station.
Brig. Nobuntu Gantana, police spokesperson in the Eastern Cape, says the two women arrived at the police station on Monday at approximately 04:30 and claimed that the presiding officer had sent them to collect voting material. However, the presiding officer was already at the police station and had not sent anyone to collect the material. The suspects were identified before they could leave the police station, after which the voting material was retained. Both were arrested on Tuesday.
A case was opened in terms of section 68(d) of Act 27 of 2000 for the alleged impersonation of an IEC official. Lt. Gen. Vuyisile Ncata, provincial commissioner of police in the Eastern Cape, condemned the incident and said that interference with the electoral process would not be tolerated.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
