Disgruntled Palapye residents steal ballot box
Koketso Kgoboge | Wednesday January 29, 2020 16:47
That is after a disgruntled few, who were against the elections, made away with the ballot box mid-election process.
The polls commenced early in the morning with the deputy district commissioner Odiseng Moruti calling them off, after the perpetrators took the box.
A yet to be identified man grabbed the box, jumped over the wall of the kgotla shelter where the elections were conducted and dashed into a waiting getaway car before it sped away.
Moruti said the elections would be recalled at a date to be announced.
“The matter is in the hands of the police. They were here, they witnessed. We had thought this was a normal community agenda and we had not anticipated such an incident could ever occur. We will prepare security in the next meeting,” he said.