# The Electoral Commission has confirmed that young people and first-time voters make up the overwhelming majority of online registration applications this weekend. The IEC’s Masego Shiburi says by midday yesterday, over 330-thousand voter registration applications were processed. Around 300-thousand transactions were processed on the voter management devices at voting stations while 30-thousand were applications on the online platform. […]
# The Electoral Commission is currently experiencing high traffic on its website as thousands of South Africans access voter registration services this weekend. IEC’s Masego Shiburi says this may result in the system being slower than usual. However, he says the commission technical teams are actively working to resolve the matter as quickly as possible. Shiburi says all […]
# Die president van die ANC, Cyril Ramaphosa, sê Suid-Afrika se Grondwet laat slegs die President toe om ministers in sy kabinet aan te stel. Ramaphosa het kommentaar gelewer nadat die DA-leier, Geordin Hill-Lewis, aan hom geskryf en versoek het dat John Steenhuisen as minister van Landbou verwyder en deur Willem Aucamp vervang word. Ramaphosa […]
# ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa’s Constitution permits only the President to appoint ministers to his cabinet. Ramaphosa’s comments come after DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis wrote to him requesting the removal of John Steenhuisen as Agriculture minister to be replaced by Willem Aucamp. He was speaking during the ANC’s voter registration drive in KwaThema, […]
# As the country is on the second day of voter registration weekend, the Forum for South Africa is calling for greater transparency in electoral processes, strict enforcement against electoral fraud and accountability across all political factors. FOSA leader, Tebogo Mashilompane emphasised that the true test of democracy lies not in readiness, but in participation […]
# Education activist Hendrick Makaneta says young people should not stand aside and watch as adults continue to take decisions which will affect them in future. The Electoral Commission has announced that more than 70-percent of South Africans aged between 18 and 19 have not registered to vote despite being eligible. On the last day of vote […]
# Die onderwysaktivis Hendrick Makaneta sê jongmense moet nie opsy staan en toekyk hoe volwassenes besluite neem wat hulle in die toekoms sal raak nie. Die Verkiesingskommissie het aangekondig dat meer as 70-persent van Suid-Afrikaners tussen 18- en 19- jaar-oud nie geregistreer is om te stem nie, alhoewel hulle stemgeregtig is. Op die laaste dag […]
# Dit is dag twee van die kiesersregistrasienaweek en die Forum for South Africa vra meer deursigtigheid in verkiesingsprosesse, streng afdwinging teen verkiesingsbedrog en aanspreeklikheid op alle politieke vlakke. FOSA se leier, Tebogo Mashilompane, beklemtoon die ware toets van demokrasie lê nie in die gereedheid nie, maar in deelname en vertroue. Hy is diep bekommerd […]
# Die EFF verwelkom die publikasie van ‘n kennisgewing om ‘n Wysigingswetsontwerp op Verkiesingsaangeleenthede in te dien, wat sy leier Julius Malema voorgestel het. Die woordvoerder Sinawo Thambo sê die doel is om Suid-Afrika se verkiesingsraamwerk aan te pas sodat kiesers outomaties geregistreer kan word. Hy sê die voorgestelde wet mik ook om struikelblokke wat […]
