Calling all residents in wards 29 and 73 – now is the time to go to your designated voting stations to make your mark in the 2021 municipal elections.

The City Time visited Actonville Primary, Benoni West Primary and the Actonville Community Centre this morning where there were no long queues and things were going smoothly.

Ward 29

Saleem Essakjee made his mark at Actonville Primary School where 2 284 residents were registered to vote at the station.

Essakjee explained that it was important for him to vote for change.

“We need to vote to get rid of the corruption in our country and the only way we can do that is to vote for the change we want to see,” he said.

“Loadshedding is one of the bigger issues in our country. We buy our own electricity but we are told when we are able to use it. We need to get rid of the people that have allowed it to go this far.”

Mzamo Nsele added that it was important for the young people to jump on board to make their mark as it is time they get involved.

Ward 73

Benoni West Primary are expecting 2 116 voters who registered to make their mark at the voting station. Udine Pretorius and Ivan Roux were two of the oldest voters who opted not to go through the special voting process and walked through the doors to make their mark.

Presiding officer at the Actonville Community Centre said that the process has been running smoothly thus far and by 10:00 over 200 voters walked through their doors.

They are expecting close to 3 000 voters as per the registration chart.

These are the voting stations ward 29 and 73 residents can cast their votes at:

Ward 29 (Actonville, the Wattville Hostel, and Emandleni informal settlement)
• Davey Social Centre
• New Apostolic Church
• St Joseph’s Catholic Church hall

Ward 73 (Western Extension, Benoni CBD, Mackenzie Park, New Modder, Rynsoord and Kingsway)
• Kingsway Combined School
• Ron Howie Hall
• Benoni Town Hall
• Willowmoore High School
• Little Engel Day Care
• New Christian Life Centre

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