Cape Talk, Wednesday afternoon

Made sure that we deploy additional material such as voting booths to increase the number of streams at these stations as well as additional VMDs just to help with the queue management. So we are actively working towards reducing those particular queues. EWN reporters have been visiting polling stations in various parts, speaking to voters in snaking queues and tracking some mayoral candidates. Reporter Quinton Tiala is currently in Langa and joins us live.

Now. Quinton, we understand voters are making their mark with the sanitation crisis right at the doorstep of the voting station. Indeed, Wesley, outside the polling station in Langa, there's a pipe burst this morning and there's raw sewage filling the whole seat. So people have to dodge sewage while they're trying to vote, time to get to the polling station at least. Now, earlier you were in Mitchell's Plain and Strandfontein.

With some political leaders. Tell us about that. Indeed, I was in Stanford. I was in Mitchells Plain first and met with National Congress Party leader Fadiel Adams, and he had to turn back, or at least someone had to go fetch his ID because he had forgotten his ID at home. So that was one aspect. And in San Francisco, I bumped into the ANC's chairperson of its provincial task team, Jeremiah Tengsma, who

Basically, said, look, what they want to do is push the DA under 50%. So they are happy with the outcomes. Although there were a few issues, they were overall happy with the voting process. Now, I hear there was a party atmosphere in Mitchell's Plain earlier. What was that like? Indeed, it was a party atmosphere. And what I noticed in Mitchell's Plain is that a lot of the songs are actually made with AI. So parties are using AI to craft songs.

Promoting the party. So party A will promote a song, you will type in an AI prompt, and they will come up with a song that only talks about that party and their issues. So that for me was quite interesting, I suppose, of the role of AI in party politics. Thanks very much, Quinton. We'll catch up with you and others throughout the afternoon. Now, to Balha, where voting got off to a slow start at Bellevue Primary School. There are nearly 20,000 registered voters.