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Various Tlokwe by-elections today─── DANE BEISHEIM 10:18 Tue, 10 Dec 2013
Dane Beisheim
Potchefstroom - By-elections will be held in six wards in Tlokwe, North West, today.
Just fewer than 19 000 people are registered to vote for wards one, four, 11, 12, 13 and 20 of the municipality.
The seats were vacated when 14 ANC councillors were expelled from the party in July for participating in a motion of no confidence in former Tlokwe mayor Maphetle Maphetle. He was replaced as mayor by Democratic Alliance councillor Annette Combrink.
The ANC's national disciplinary committee subsequently overturned the expulsions, but nominated other candidates for the by-elections. Some of the former councillors decided to stand as independents.
Voting stations opened at 7am and will close at 9pm.
