South Africa: Voting Interrupted As Protest Action Flares Up in KZN

Election day in KwaZulu-Natal was mired by electoral staff dismissals and sporadic protest action on Wednesday.

Police sources, with intimate knowledge of deployments in KZN, said officers from the Public Order Policing Unit had been deployed to deal with sporadic unrest in Ladysmith on the province's central escarpment, and in Chatsworth in Durban.

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