Voting will not make a difference: Swartberg citizen

07 May 2014 - 14:26 By Sapa
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Voting will not make a difference, a woman from Swartberg in KwaZulu-Natal claimed on Wednesday.

"My husband and I live on a farm and both our families have been victims of farm attacks," said Samantha Wright, who lives near the border of Lesotho, roughly 45km outside Kokstad.

"That's the reason we are not voting, together with the fact that I have a one-year-old baby and am unable to stand in long queues in very rural areas with a baby."

She said the voting stations in her district were in dangerous areas, and the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) had made it difficult for mothers to vote.

"They don't make it easy for mothers. You have to go into terrible locations and stand in long queues where starving dogs roam. It's not very pleasant. My husband and I are therefore not voting."

Wright said voting would not make a difference to them.

"It's a personal opinion. Being in a farming area, I see how things haven't improved here for farmworkers. They are being let down. Voting won't change that."

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