“As I am speaking now, we are busy addressing and mobilising the youth to go and register to vote this weekend,” ANC secretary in its Sara Baartman region, Scara Njadayi, told Grocott’s Mail.
“As I am speaking now, we are busy addressing and mobilising the youth to go and register to vote this weekend,” ANC secretary in its Sara Baartman region, Scara Njadayi, told Grocott’s Mail.
He was commenting on President Jacob Zuma’s announcement of the date of the 2014 national election on Friday 7 February, ahead of the last voter registration weekend for the national elections.
Njadayi said the organisation in the region would continue with their planning.
"Our programmes are continuous,” he said. “The region and its structures are also busy with door to door visits to encourage people to go and register in this last open weekend."
He appealed for Grahamstown residents to collect their identity documents from Home Affairs. "There are hundreds of ID books at Home Affairs that have not been collected,” he said, “especially in Grahamstown."
“We urge people to go and collect them so that they can register to vote."
He said during the week they had been going to prisons in the region to encourage inmates to register to vote.
Around midday on Friday, the President noted that the electoral term of the present government would come to an end on 22 April.
Meanwhile, the Independent Electoral Commission announced late Sunday 9 February that most registration stations had opened on schedule at 8am for the final weekend registration drive.
Only the weather had caused some obstacles to an otherwise smooth process at the country’s 22 263 voting stations, the IEC said in a media release.
“In most cases it was the recent rains which caused the most challenges with stations opening late as election officials struggled to reach remote rural areas on impassable roads,” the statement said.
Voting stations were also reported open and operational in most areas of recent community protest, the IEC said.
To find out the location of their correct voting station eligible voters can:
- Use the Voting Station Finder APP on www.elections.org.za
- Call the IEC Call Centre on 0800 11 8000.
Voters who are already registered can check their registration details including which voting station they are registered at by SMSing their ID number to 32810.
