The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) say they have lodged complaints with the IEC in the province following a few but serious issues.

Jerry Matebesi from the EFF says they had issues with scanners and zip machines not being available in Ward 9 in Bojanala.

These allegations were echoed by the leader of the FF+ in the province, Hannes Schutte, who says it baffles them that such issues are still central with the IEC.

Matebesi says the EFF did not take kindly to an incident where the ANC councillor allegedly voted twice in Marikana after the ink used to vote apparently came off immediately.

Meanwhile, the ANC's Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane in the province has denied the EFF's claims that a ward councillor in Marikana voted twice at the Marikana High School and Marikana Community Hall.

News24 quoted Kubayi-Ngubane, an ANC provincial task team coordinator in the province, saying the party had seen the EFF's statement and had "checked with the people on the ground in the province" as to what happened.

She said the person in question was the branch election team coordinator, who forms part of the ANC's elections party agents in the province.

Kubayi-Ngubane says it was normal for him to be moving around to different voting stations to observe how the voting process was going. She says the claims made by the EFF were "untrue".

OFM News/Lucky Nkuyane, Olebogeng Motse and Olefile Vilakazi