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SOUTH AFRICA’S electoral commission has ordered a partial rerun of a local poll following allegations of ballot-rigging.

The commission said the Metsimaholo municipal election would be run again in Zamdela ward and there would be a probe into why ballot papers stamped for one area were used in a different one.

Consequently, it has not yet published official results.

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