A video, widely shared on social media, showed two queues; one populated by white people, and the other by black people.
CAPE TOWN - Western Cape chief electoral officer Courtney Sampson said on Wednesday there was no racial segregation at a voting station in Wellington.
This was the first year that citizens could cast their votes anywhere they pleased. But those voters had to fill out a form first.Sampson said all the backlogs were cleared. He said it often took a while to get ballots to stations that had run out, because of the importance of keeping those ballots safe and secure.
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