ANC sends condolences following deaths at voting stations
The ANC has offered its sincere condolences to the families of two voters who have passed away at voting stations in KwaZulu-Natal and the Northern Cape.
The IEC has confirmed that two people have died at two different voting stations in the country this morning.
The first person reportedly died after collapsing in line at the Khethokuhle voting station in the Ingwe Municipality, in southern KwaZulu-Natal.
Another death occurred at a voting stating in Strydenburg in the Northern Cape.
The ANC also sent their sympathies to the family of an ANC party volunteer who passed away at a voting station in Struisbaai in the Western Cape.
"The circumstances surrounding the death of a woman at a voting station in Bulwer have not been made available, and IEC officials in the Northern Cape have indicated the man who passed away at a voting station in Strydenberg appears to have died of natural causes," the ANC said in a statement.