Cape Town man in court for allegedly voting twice
Western Cape Police Commissioner Thembisile Patekile said that he was one of ten arrests that had been made during this electoral period.
Ballot boxes at Rosebank Junior School in Cape Town on 29 May 2024. Picture: Skhu Nkomphela/Eyewitness News
CAPE TOWN - A man has appeared in the Cape Town Magistrates Court on Thursday for electoral fraud.
It appears that he managed to vote twice - once at the Jan van Riebeeck Primary School in Gardens and then at the Jan van Riebeeck High School just up the road.
Western Cape Police Commissioner Thembisile Patekile said that he was one of ten arrests that had been made during this electoral period.
"The person that was arrested is 64-years-old for voting twice. He has appeared in court and has been released on bail."
The man appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s this morning. Western Cape Police say he’s been charged with electoral fraud. #Elections2024
— EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) May 30, 2024
Meanwhile, arrests have also been made in Caledon, where suspects broke into an IEC office and stole equipment.
The scanner and projector that were taken have since been recovered.
Patekile said that many of the arrests related to malicious damages, assault and intimidation.