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Podcast: The Herald
Episode: Crunching the registration weekend numbers
Description: The Independent Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) in the Eastern Cape is pleased with the turnout at the weekend’s voter registration.
South Africans take to the polls in the seventh democratic national and provincial elections in 2024 and, it seemed, youth were not interested in registering — or casting their vote.
Speaking on Behind The Herald Headlines with Daron Mann this week, Eastern Cape IEC electoral officer Kayakazi Magudumana says the number of young people registered on the voters’ roll did not compare favourably with Stats SA figures.
But she said there had been a “great im...