Last Wednesday there was a municipal by-election in Vryheid in our Ward 22. It was won by the ANC, which in effect retained the seat. But it was a by-election that was postponed twice. It was a by-election that in our view involved massive electoral fraud, or an attempt at a massive fraud, which was prevented as far as was humanly possible by one man, Andre Lotter.
We are poorer for that; not just the actual residents within Ward 22, but the whole of Vryheid, AbaQulusi, KZN and ultimately South Africa.