Overview
- NATJOINTS briefed media in Pretoria on Sunday and said special voting starts Monday with the main voting day on Wednesday, and security teams are on high alert.
- The security cluster has classified polling stations as high, medium and low risk and identified 331 high‑risk sites, most of them in KwaZulu‑Natal and Gauteng, to guide where officers are sent.
- Deputy National Police Commissioner Tebello Mosikili warned that marches or protests that block access to voting stations or electoral offices will be treated as crimes and met with decisive police action.
- NATJOINTS reported a wave of election‑linked violence during the campaign period, including 20 political‑linked murders and 139 election‑related crime dockets, and said the SANDF is on standby for hotspot support.
- Officials and analysts, including Professor Susan Booysen, say the stepped‑up, intelligence‑based policing aims to protect voters and the integrity of the polls but will put a spotlight on how police handle protests and prosecutions after the vote.