Flood-hit Chatsworth hopes for better services as it turns out to vote

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Flood-hit Chatsworth hopes for better services as it turns out to vote.

Suthentira GovenderThat’s the belief that drove 81-year-old Chatsworth resident Dhana Naidoo and his wife Veliamah, 75, to the polls on Wednesday.

One of his stops was Westcliff, where eight people lost their lives after their home below the Westcliff Secondary School collapsed during a mudslide. At the school on Wednesday, voters gradually made their way in, seemingly oblivious to the tragedy that had unfolded less than a month earlier. IEC officials at the Westcliff voting station reported that over 200 voters had turned up since 7am and they were expecting more people as the day wore on.

 

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