Potential voters found themselves being intimidated as they attempted to register in Limpopo’s Vhembe District Municipality during the final voter-registration weekend.
But according to a report in Beeld on Tuesday none of the registered political parties was to blame. In fact, Limpopo’s chief electoral officer, Nkara Matete, said the culprit was a lion.
“There has been a complaint of intimidation lodged in Mutale where a lion has frightened off voters who were trying to get to voter stations [to register],” she was quoted as saying at a press conference in Polokwane.
The lion had apparently escaped from the nearby Makuya Park and attempts by game wardens and police on Saturday to track down the intimidating beast had failed.
The Makuya Nature Reserve shares a fenceless border with the neighbouring Kruger National Park. — Sapa