There was something fresh — liberating actually — about not having to cover Jacob Zuma voting; about not having to stand around for hours waiting for him to eventually turn up, about not being shoved around by uBaba’s security. SAElections2019
Wednesday.It’s freezing in the pitch dark as we inch our way down the narrow, potholed excuse for a road that runs down the steep hillside from Isulabasha Primary School to Stick Farm.The home-made roadblocks that local residents had been building since 11pm on Tuesday are back after a four-hour absence enforced by the army of heavily armed police who had been brought in to clear the road so that voting could take place at the two polling stations in the district.
The plan to spend the afternoon at Ward 88, where the ANC councillor, S’bu Maphumulo, was assassinated last year and monitor voting patterns takes one in the head. There’s no way everything for the paper can be filed on Thursday, so it’s Plan B. We start to panic, bail on the metro and head for Umdoni. It’s dark by the time we eventually find Stick Farm. We’re sick with anxiety. Then we see the barricades, the cop vans, the charred trees on the roadside.It was cool, way cooler than the last two elections, when I voted at Ntolwane Primary School in Nxamalala, former president Jacob Zuma’s polling station.
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