It was a day of mixed emotions during election day on Monday as residents of the dysfunctional Ditsobotla local municipality in North West said they believed their votewould change their lives whereas others said they had not voted.

As people stood in long queues at voting stations in Boikhutso, Lichtenburg, to cast their votes while other stations had few people trickling in, dozens of people were seen on some streets not far away from the polling stations fetching water from a communal tap with all sorts of containers...