Special voting off to slow start at Khutsong church where Des van Rooyen to cast vote

JOHANNESBURG - Voting has gotten off to a slow start at the Maranatha Reformed Church of Christ in Khutsong, east of Johannesburg.
 
This is where former finance minister and now member of the uMkhonto weSizwe Party, Des van Rooyen, is set to mark the ballot paper on Monday.
 
IEC officials at the polling station said that only two people had voted since the special votes opened on Monday morning.
 
One hundred and forty-eight people in the community are registered to mark the ballot paper on Monday and Tuesday.

IEC officials are conducting home visits to allow elderly people their democratic right to mark the ballot paper.
 
But it's seemingly not going as planned, as only two residents in this community have managed to vote since the opening of special votes.
 
Khutsong residents are going into this election with longstanding frustrations over the issue of sinkholes that continue to swallow public spaces.
 
Forty-three-year-old, Lebogang Molebatsi, said she feared her home might be destroyed by a sinkhole as well.
 
"This hurts me so much because this house was built by my parents. I can't move out of this house because it's all that my parents left."
 
Former Finance Minister Des van Rooyen, who occupied the position for just a weekend, is set to mark the ballot paper in Khutsong on Monday.