Most of them have told Eyewitness News that they wanted to see change in the troubled township.
Democratic Alliance (DA) Cape Town mayoral candidate Geordin Hill-Lewis cast his vote at the Edgemead Community Hall on Monday morning.
South Africans head to the polls t make their mark in the country's sixth local government elections.
In some parts of the country, residents have taken matters into their own hands, successfully persuading the courts to take away from councils some of their powers and functions, as well as budget, and give them to concerned citizens to fix crumbling infrastructure.
President Cyril Ramaphosa urged South Africans to approach their civic duty to vote in local government elections with the same enthusiasm they would with national elections as it was an opportunity to make their voices heard and to hold elected representatives accountable.
Coalition governments are a fact of life in South Africa, thanks to its proportional system of representation, while the impact of low voter turnout on the once-mighty African National Congress (ANC) makes hung councils more, not less, inevitable in municipalities across the country.
As South Africa gears up for the local government elections on 1 November, disgruntled voters in Tshwane and Ekurhuleni say they have little reason to cast their ballots.
Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Velenkosini Hlabisa delivered the keynote speech at the party's manifesto launch for the 1 November local government elections.
African National Congress (ANC) president Ramaphosa was speaking at the party's post-election manifesto briefing on Wednesday evening.
President Cyril Ramaphosa noted that the ANC had involved communities in the selection of its candidates and as a result, they enjoyed the confidence of the people they were expected to serve as they were rooted in the communities and had strong service records.
Cyril Ramaphosa was speaking at the launch of the ANC’s local government elections manifesto at Pretoria’s Church Square on Monday, where former presidents, Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe, were also in attendance.
The party is faced with the difficult task of trying to win back control of several metros it lost in 2016.
Political analyst Ralph Mathekga said that the Democratic Alliance (DA) still had many voters to convince.
Party leader John Steenhuisen said that the biggest failures in local government were in small municipalities, which should be a focus area.
The party’s deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte on Wednesday said that they were concerned but believed that the ANC had to continue trying to assist communities to move away from the violence, especially when it came to dealing with women.
The candidates were announced by the party chairperson in Gauteng, Tom Molefe, who expressed confidence that should their candidates win, they would lead with distinction.
The party will launch its election manifesto next week Thursday.
The federation’s affiliates are unhappy with the government following its reneging on the public sector wage deal last year with some of its biggest unions also having refused to be party to this year’s deal which it said was an attack on collective bargaining.
