The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in KwaZulu-Natal says its voter registration drive in the province is continuing without major incidents.
This includes five voting stations where registration was disrupted by a protest in the Umuziwabantu Local Municipality near Harding in Southern KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday.
Local taxi operators and business forums took to the streets over an incomplete road project.
Provincial IEC spokesperson Thabani Ngwira says the Provincial Department of Transport intervened to address the concerns.
He says the voting stations were opened by midday on Saturday and no further interruptions have been reported.
More than five thousand voting stations are open for eligible voters to verify their names and details on the voters’ roll and to register to vote in the November 4 local elections.
A portion of eThekwini’s former Ward 5 in Hammarsdale has also been incorporated into the uMkhambathini local municipality and now forms part of Ward 9 in the municipality.
Meanwhile, the Electoral Commission is urging residents in parts of Umbumbulu in the south of Durban to verify their voter registration details after Ward 105 in the eThekwini municipality was moved to a local municipality in the Mgungundlovu district municipality.
The municipal boundary changes mean that voters will now be registered under ward 10 in the uMkhambathini Local Municipality.
IEC regional manager for the Mgungundlovu District, Khulekani Mdadane, says the ward originally fell under the uMkhambathini local council but was demarcated to fall under the Durban Metro Municipality ten years ago after residents raised concerns about service delivery.
Mdadane says residents have now opted to return to the uMkhambathini local council, after they felt their expectations weren’t met.
VIDEO| Day 2 of voter registration weekend in Umbumbulu, KwaZulu-Natal:
