Whether they stood in short or long queues, one thing is for sure: Midrand’s community were active online.
On the Midrand Reporter Facebook page, BBM and Twitter account, community members kept one another in the loop on how their voting process went.
An example of this is the Twitter conversation between Mlungisi Magubane (@mluudah) and Matthew Collier (@matt_collier77) as Magubane tweeted, “Hey @MidrandReporter how’s the queue at Midrand High School?” and Collier responded, “@mluudah @MidrandReporter don’t bother, I’m halfway, been in queue for 90 minutes, very slow!”
Magubane replied, “Eish I’ll come later.”
It seemed some areas were generally a lot shorter than others, with the shortest queue 20 minutes long and the longest four hours.
The fastest queues seemed to be at Leeuwkop Prison, which Donovan Robinson said was less than 20 minutes long. At Halfway House Primary, it took Tumi Maketa less than 30 minutes to vote but later in the day it took Linda Naidoo four hours and 10 minutes.
At Halfway House Community Centre, Marianne Nel waited 45 minutes to cast her vote.
One-hour queues were at Beaulieu, according to Fee Riley; on Lever Road in Noordwyk, according to Kerileng Keri Monoa, and at Kaalfontein, according to BBM contact TP Man of Steel.
The line at the Swiss Club was long, with Jaco van der Lith waiting for two-and-a-half hours; voters had to wait in a long queue in Midrand Primary’s line, with BBM contact Tshepo Mashingo waiting two-and-a-half hours to cast his vote and Toffie waiting to vote for three hours.
Ebony Park Primary also had long queues with BBM contact Isabella Mnisi waiting from 6.40am to 11am and Vusi Ngqwababa said he waited for four hours.
