Tag: voting
Voters urged to familiarise themselves with three ballot papers
As South Africa holds its seventh democratic elections this week, voters will for the first time receive three ballot papers instead of two ballots.
The Electoral Commission (IEC) has urged voters to...
Bring on the miracle voting machine
THE elections are due next year and the druids of politics are chanting that we had better get onto it now. Well, 2024 is a special year, being exactly three decades...
Eskom not expected to implement load shedding during election process
Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, says Eskom does not expect this weekend’s special voting process and Election Day to be hampered by load shedding.
He was speaking during a briefing on...
Option of electronic voting in South Africa being “investigated”
The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has been asked by Parliament to respond to a number of public comments made on the Electoral Laws Amendment Bill. Some of the questions...
Eight days left to polls
In exactly eight days, millions of South Africans will go to the polls to make their mark in the 2019 National and Provincial Elections.
A total of 26 744 565 South Africans...