About 15 people have already been killed in violence allegedly linked to next week’s local government elections‚ Police Minister Nathi Nhleko has announced.
Nhleko told the parliamentary press corps in Cape Town on Wednesday that it was hard to say whether the deaths were indeed political killings‚ but at this stage this was the assumption of a police task team set up to deal with the matter.
The vast majority of the more than 30 criminal cases being linked to the elections were being investigated in KwaZulu-Natal‚ although Gauteng‚ Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape also reported cases.
Almost 100‚000 police will be deployed next Wednesday on election day to maintain order‚ Nhleko announced.
Of these‚ about 50‚000 will be static‚ manning election stations‚ and the rest will be mobile‚ ready to be moved to hotspots as they happen.
Of South Africa’s 22‚612 polling stations‚ 20‚634 are seen as low risk‚ 1‚328 as medium risk and 650 as high risk areas.
Police task team probing 30 criminal cases linked to elections
Nhleko told the parliamentary press corps in Cape Town on Wednesday that it was hard to say whether the deaths were indeed political killings‚ but at this stage this was the assumption of a police task team set up to deal with the matter.
The vast majority of the more than 30 criminal cases being linked to the elections were being investigated in KwaZulu-Natal‚ although Gauteng‚ Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape also reported cases.
Almost 100‚000 police will be deployed next Wednesday on election day to maintain order‚ Nhleko announced.
Of these‚ about 50‚000 will be static‚ manning election stations‚ and the rest will be mobile‚ ready to be moved to hotspots as they happen.
Of South Africa’s 22‚612 polling stations‚ 20‚634 are seen as low risk‚ 1‚328 as medium risk and 650 as high risk areas.
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