Forty-nine voting stations in the Western Cape have been identified as high risk. (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images)
Forty-nine voting stations in the Western Cape have been identified as high risk and will be bolstered by the deployment of extra police.
Briefing the media on the police’s readiness for the upcoming elections, provincial SAPS commissioner Lieutenant General Thembisile Patekile said officers would be deployed at the more than 1 570 polling stations in the province.
Patekile said that of those stations, 49 were deemed to be high risk and 275 medium risk. The rest of the voting stations were low risk.
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