More than seventy IEC area managers and presiding officers from different voting stations in the Sol Plaatjie Municipality queued outside the IEC's storage facilities at the Mittah Seperepere Convention centre from as early as five o clock to collect their voting material. This as more than six thousand people will cast their special votes in the Sol Plaatjie Municipal area alone. Close to sixty thousand eligible voters have applied for special votes for these elections. Mercedes Besent report.............