Police minister Bheki Cele says a risk assessment has identified between 270 and 300 high-risk election hotspots countrywide.

He said four provinces — KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape — were hotspots but that did not necessarily indicate other provinces were altogether peaceful. “There are pockets everywhere,” Cele said...

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