Despite her dilapidated three-roomed house, constant load-shedding and a sewage spill across the yard, a 74-year-old Kliptown resident says she was proud to have cast her vote for the sixth time on Monday.
Yvonne Lekoma outside her home in Kliptown, Soweto, as special votes are cast on Monday in advance of Wednesday's poll.
Lekoma was one of nine people who applied to cast their special vote at Khayalethu Care Centre in the historic Soweto suburb. Of the 17 people expected to cast their special vote there on Monday, about 13 had already done so by 12.30pm, according to Electoral Commission official Wayne da Gama."The voting process is going well for today, even though a lot of people did not apply for a special vote," he said.
"You must have patience, things don't happen overnight. You must remember there is a lot to fix since the apartheid regime," she said. "Our children are unemployed, our houses are old and falling apart, as you can see. Even though our children go to school, what happens to them afterwards, they're forced to linger. The government must assist us because we are also voting," she said.
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