Over 400 Basarwa disenfranchised last year- Sesana
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Meanwhile the independent Electoral commission (IEC) principal spokesman Osupile Maroba has confirmed that indeed the names of the five villages listed by Sesana do not appear on the voters roll. Gantsi District commissioner Utlwang Kerekang also confirms that they had no polling stations and did not register voters at the five settlements inside the CKGR.
The five settlements which Sesana claims over 400 Basarwa were denied the right to vote are Molapo, Metsiamanong, Mothomela, Gugama or Kukama and Gope. People were living in those settlements during the elections. They did not vote when the rest of the nation went to the polls, Sesana claimed.
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