The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) says contingency plans are in place to curb anything that may hinder operations from running smoothly on May 8, the day when South African citizens head to the polls.
The IEC said that, while power utility Eskom had promised that there were no planned outages for the day, it had ensured that there were alternatives should there be no electricity.
“On our part, we have made contingency measures to deal with localised outages, and we will work in conjunction with Eskom and power utilities in the cities to ensure that, where we are challenged, we can get back to operations in a shorter period, as soon as possible,” IEC deputy CEO Masego Shiburi said.
State of readiness
On Thursday, the IEC outlined its state of readiness at the national Results Operation Centre (ROC), at the Tshwane Events Centre in Pretoria. It said it was
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