The ballot box, the wedding ring and the politician’s promise - A newly married man accidently dropped his wedding ring into the ballot box while voting on 1 November
Everyone knows there are two things you should never do: trust a politician’s promise and go home without your wedding ring. On 1 November, Thinus Coetzee did both.
Journalist-turned-ward 84 DA councillor Norman McFarlane is obviously pleased with the result. But his “forever” memory of the 2021 local government elections will be what happened at the end of a long day, at the end of a long queue. It was close to midnight, the boxes were full and an IEC official was forcing the ballots in with a ruler. One of the last people in the queue walked up to the ballot box, pushed his paper through the slot … and then cried out in dismay.“The queue was very long all day, so I went later,” said Coetzee. “But still, I must have stood for nearly four hours.”“I went to put my ballot in, but it kept falling out because the box was so full.
McFarlane wrote down the seal number, took Coetzee’s details and when the doors were locked for counting, he remained inside.
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