Protesters challenge KZN elections

Uphill battle: At Isulabasha Primary School, voting only started at 3pm on Wednesday. The South African Police Service had to be deployed after residents barricaded the road to the polling station in the Umdoni municipality.

Only 300 of the more than 1000 voters registered at the station had been able to cast their votes: until 3pm the station was closed because of a blockade by angry residents protesting over their inability to access water, houses and jobs. The two were among 14 voting stations in the province — there were 18 countrywide — at which voting was severely delayed or disrupted by service delivery protests, according to the Electoral Commission of South Africa .

Police public order units called to the lower South Coast municipality from Port Shepstone were pelted with rocks as they tried to clear the blockades in the road, which were replaced further up and down the road by residents throughout the morning and early afternoon.

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