Police escort former University of Johannesburg students to campus voting station after scuffle

03 August 2016 - 17:02 By Katharine Child

Police had to escort former University of Johannesburg (UJ) students to a voting station on its Doornfontein campus after a scuffle on Wednesday. Former student Rudolph Kekana‚ who was expelled from UJ in 2010‚ said he agreed that under normal circumstances he should not be allowed on the campus‚ but that he should be allowed in on election day because it was an Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) voting station. "Today when I came to cast my vote I had to push and scuffle with cops to exercise my right‚" he said. TMG Digital has viewed videos of two former UJ students - they are no longer registered there and were denied entry - on one side of the fence around the voting station‚ with a contingent of police on the other side.Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) secretary on campus Shaun Kgomo said party members who were no longer students were escorted onto the campus by the police after a scuffle.He believed the heavy police presence at the voting security was a form of intimidation. All former students who arrived at the UJ voting station were allowed to vote.However‚ EFF and Democratic Alliance (DA) youth claim community members were turned away from the voting station on Wednesday morning.While the youth claimed they were turned away because they were not students‚ DA agent Mothusi Sikhosana said they were denied entry even though they were registered at the voting station. No one was being turned away by Wednesday afternoon.There was a heavy police presence at the voting station and the situation there was calm.Who did you vote for? #ElectionDay#LGE2016 Live results as they come in here https://t.co/QimvYr2pW1— Times LIVE (@TimesLIVE) August 3, 2016ss..

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