South Africa: Let's Have a Dignified Election Day, Says Western Cape IEC Officer Courtney Sampson

With three weeks to go before the 8 May 2019 elections and protests erupting across the Western Cape and other parts of the country, provincial electoral officer Courtney Sampson, who will oversee the voting of three million people, appealed to politicians to refrain from bullying, pushing around and screaming at voters.

"The most important thing for me is that the elections must be something that people believe in," said Courtney Sampson, long-standing Western Cape provincial electoral officer of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC).

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