The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) confirmed on Monday evening it is investigating an alleged case of assault against a police officer after DA federal council chairperson Helen Zille was dragged from a voting station on Monday afternoon. “Ipid is investigating a case of assault where it is alleged that the complainant is Mrs. Helen Zille. It is alleged that she opened a case of assault against a. “It is also alleged that there was a person who was taking a video of the incident, and the police took his phone, which was later handed back to him, this person later opened a theft case.”

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Langa said they have been trying to get hold of Zille but have not been successful yet. But Zille took to social media on Monday evening, saying she had been busy. “I am too busy with the election to answer your phone calls now.” She explained the entire ordeal on her Facebook Page, saying election day is an enormous logistic exercise. She said it was clear that delays at the Fernwood Park Primary Voting Station were clearly deliberate, and scores of voters left without voting in this DA stronghold. “The same, apparently, applies in many other places.

If elections lose their credibility in South Africa, the IEC will have much to answer for. As I experienced today at Fernwood Park Primary.” She explained that in each town and city there are hundreds of volunteers assigned different tasks: phoning voters, transporting voters, checking IDs, collating statistics, managing the media, dealing with a myriad of queries and much more.