Some residents in Dludluma Village in the Nkomazi Local Municipality have accused the police of trying to shoot them.
This after community members barred IEC officials in the province from accessing the voter registration station in ward 6 on Saturday morning.
Residents took to the streets protesting over the state of roads and lack of water in the area.
Disgruntled resident Sibusiso Makamu said that they had been raising these issues since 2018.
Provincial police spokesperson Colonel Donald Mdluli maintains that members of the Public Order Police and SAPS members in Tonga were deployed to the area after the protesting residents disrupted the registration process.
Mdluli has also confirmed that during the commotion, an IEC official was assaulted and has since opened a case with the police.
Mdluli said that while residents had a right to protest, they should not infringe on other people’s democratic rights.
All stations in Bushbuck Ridge are open and operating smoothly.
-EWN
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