RC 261102SAfmAshraf Garda
Monday, 2 November 2026
Special voting day was dominated by election-administration jitters: ballot boxes stolen in KwaZulu-Natal, an IEC officer's death in the North West, and Cape Town stations opening late.
- 16:03
The Electoral Commission confirmed ballot boxes and election material were stolen in an overnight break-in at a voting station in Umdoni municipality, south of Durban. Police are investigating the incident.
- 17:01
An IEC presiding officer collapsed and died while on duty at a North West voting station after stations opened on the first day of special votes, the commission confirmed.
- 15:14
The IEC reprinted 33 million ballots to accommodate 32 parties, including the ANC, after a Constitutional Court order. That delayed the opening of some Cape Town voting stations on special-vote day.
- 15:04
The Pretoria High Court has ordered former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi to pay the state more than R1.6 billion, following his guilty pleas to corruption and money-laundering charges last year.
- 16:13
The Human Rights Commission's Gauteng water inquiry found that over half the water municipalities receive is lost to leakages, with weak technical staffing behind prolonged outages and heavy reliance on tankers.