SAfm, Thursday morning

Nechuwunda joins us now. Colonel, good morning to you. Thank you for your time. Firstly, you know, there doesn't seem to yet be clear answers around how these votes were stolen. You're investigating this matter. What can you tell us on the record about what happened in Hillcrest? Good morning to you, Kathy, and to the listeners. What happened is that a presiding officer of the III

EC went to a voting station on Tuesday night at a high school. She went into a guardhouse which does not have a lock and put sensive materials like your ink, voters' roll, ballot papers and other materials then she closed that door and left only locking the school gates.

And as she was putting those materials, there were a group of about 10 people who could see what she was doing. So on Wednesday morning, yesterday, when she went back, she found a group of people outside the school gate, and that gate was open. When she went to the guard house, she found that what she had put in there was stolen. That's what happened. Have you been able to recover the stolen materials?

We had not recovered the stolen material. We are investigating the breach of protocols because the protocol dictates that voting materials which are sensitive, like your voter's roll, the ballot papers and the ink, will be transported from the storage facility to a voting station in the morning of the election day and under police escort.

We are investigating why they were taken there a night before because nothing must be stored at a voting station overnight and why such was done without police escort. We were given assurance by IEC that the stamps which were stolen were used the previous day and we're using different stamps for all the days of the voting, meaning that they spoke to the