Soon, South Africans will have made their mark on the ballot sheets, the results will have been counted and political posters will droop from streetlamps for months to come. Here are the absurd highlights:
Residents of Lesseyton village in Komani in the Eastern Cape, where Enoch Mgijima municipality built a shoddy ‘stadium’ for R15-million, have to travel three kilometres to get water from a nearby river or hire a bakkie to collect water at a cost of R500. This has been going on for 15 years.