‘I’m voting for myself’
Incumbent Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille, wearing a bright DA-blue suit, said she would be casting a selfie vote.
|||Cape Town - No prizes for guessing which boxes were checked on incumbent Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille's ballot on Wednesday morning.
Standing in a short queue at Pinelands voting station on Wednesday morning and wearing a bright DA-blue suit, the mayor said she would be casting a selfie vote.
"It's been a long campaign and today I'm voting for myself," she said.
After slotting her ballot in the box, De Lille said that 22 years later she went through the same emotions as when she cast her first vote.
"It's the same feeling I had when I voted for the first time in 1994," she said outside the polling station. "The value of the vote in a democracy is something. We must never take for granted. We have worked hard and I'm so pleased to see our democracy is beginning to stabilise."
My work as mayor speaks for itself: @PatriciaDeLille after voting at Pinelands @TheCapeArgus #Elections2016 pic.twitter.com/KOjFtRSDGc
— Chelsea Geach (@ChelseaGeach) August 3, 2016
De Lille said her campaign started five years ago when she stepped into the mayoral office.
"Every day of my work as mayor has been to protect my own integrity by making sure that what I've put into the manifesto and the plans I have committed myself that it's carried out," she said. "I'm confident that I've done that."
De Lille said that her work as mayor had spoken for itself.
"I can actually see a visible difference in the city of Cape Town," she said. "Voters have experienced the change and so they will give us another 5 years to continue with the progress we have made."
chelsea.geach@inl.co.za
Elections Bureau