Don’t question the IEC’s integrity, warns Malema
EFF leader Julius Malema says he is satisfied with the manner in which the Independent Electoral Commission has managed the elections throughout the country.
This is despite delays at several polling stations on Wednesday morning as voting began in earnest.
More than 27 million voters are registered for the most uncertain poll since the ANC led the nation out of apartheid rule.
With opposition challenges from both the left and right, unemployment and crime at near record levels and a new generation growing up with no memory of the struggle against white-minority rule, the governing party may be forced to share power.
"We must not, out of our own fear of losing elections, and then start casting aspersion on IEC and its integrity,” Malema said before casting his vote in Seshego.
"We have run elections successfully for so many years without a problem, so we shouldn't expect major problems.
Malema engaged members of the media in the voting queue at Mponegele Primary School outside Polokwane.
Malema believes this year’s general elections are a turning point for South Africa, as many people want to see change.
"It is a point where our country will make serious inroads and a country where the voter will decide in which direction we are going as a country. So we should be able to see some changes from this elections."
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