"I won't be voting today [Wednesday], I voted before but I live worse than before. I live in a rotting tent, when it rains I get wet but I am supposed to vote. No change, no vote," said Rosina Mokoe.

Mokoe, 31, has been living on a plot on a farm for years.

She said she voted in the previous elections but her living conditions have not improved.

Fanie Joe, 28, said he too would not cast his vote. He said he has never voted, because he did not see the importance of it.

"I don't know about other people but I am not going to vote today. We have been living in tents, we have been protesting and fighting but here we are in tents. People have been voting for many years but they have achieved nothing," said Fanie.

Tentville residents have been demanding land and housing from the Rustenburg Local Municipality since 2013. The land they currently occupy does not belong to them.

The municipality has tried to move them but they demanded that their houses be built on the farm where they are squatting.

They currently live in dilapidated tents with no electricity. The area has one water tank installed for use.

There were no queues at the Boshoek Primary School voting station, where they were supposed to cast their vote.

Meanwhile in Freedom Park outside Rustenburg voting went smoothly.

African News Agency (ANA)