# Civil society organisation Defend Our Democracy warns that declining trust in local government and political leaders should not lead South Africans to not vote in the local government elections. The organisation’s executive director Wade Manning says residents must use their votes to demand reliable water, electricity and accountable leadership. Defend Our Democracy will deploy more than two-thousand-600 trained citizen observers across all nine provinces to monitor the elections on Wednesday. Manning has urged voters to report electoral irregularities, intimidation and misinformation.
Defend Our Democracy urges voters to turn their frustrations over poor service delivery into active participation