About 1% of polling stations likely to be disrupted‚ predicts ISS
The Institute of Security Studies notes that ‘many support the political party they are protesting against [but] voting for an alternative is not option’
As the country prepares to vote on Wednesday‚ the Institute of Security Studies (ISS) says disruptions can be expected at 1% of polling stations. “We do not anticipate more than a percentage or two of voting stations disrupted — 2% is really unexpected. We can safely say about 1%‚ which is higher than previous years‚” said Lizette Lancaster of the ISS’s crime and justice hub. Lancaster was speaking at an ISS seminar on Thursday‚ where she presented research on violence leading up to and during elections. “By 2012, we started realising that crime or public violence associated with protests were on the increase‚ more and more arrests were being made, and that there were more protests turning violent than in the previous decade‚” she said. The country has‚ in the past few months‚ been confronted with a series of service delivery protests‚ including the #AlexShutdown. “There is an increasing feeling of despair when it comes to service delivery‚ and the government is just not responsive....
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