Gaj and Kaamilah Munsamy cast their votes accompanied by their young daughter. The pair say it took under five minutes and the IEC officials were friendly and professional. Photo: Johan Meyer
Voting at the Dardanelles Moth Hall in Fourth Street has thus far gone without a hitch.
During the Roodepoort Record’s visit to the voting station, residents were steadily arriving to cast their votes and were quickly shown by IEC staffers manning the entrance where to go and what to do.
According to DA representative John Kirsten, voting has proceeded smoothly.
“We’ve not experienced any serious problems thus far, though a lot of voters are still expected to turn up during the course of the afternoon and evening,” he said.
Party agents unite outside
Even the various political party representatives camped under their respective gazebos across the street from the voting station were having a good time of it, jovially socialising across enemy lines as the day progressed.
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"Johan is an internationally published journalist and editor with extensive experience in news and industry reporting. His work has featured in numerous publications over the years.
He cut his teeth at the Roodepoort Record and Northside Chronicle as proofreader, swiftly progressing to junior journalist. He later joined Randfontein Herald as journalist and eventually worked his way up to becoming editor. During his years away from Caxton, he fulfilled journalist and editor positions for various industry publications at the once mighty Malnor Media House right up to their closure in 2019. This position saw him traveling all over the world on writing assignments. Since 2019, he has worked as a freelancer for various publishing houses, and had a year-long stint as senior editor for a large stable of retail and medical B2B titles, until rapid growth of his own small business required his fulltime attention. At the end of 2023, with his own business now fully staffed, Johan decided to dedicate himself to his first love, working as a local journalist for the good of his community.
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