{"id":967279,"date":"2024-05-26T16:18:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T16:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967279"},"modified":"2024-05-26T16:18:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T16:18:15","slug":"bloemfontein-residents-express-mixed-views-on-upcoming-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/bloemfontein-residents-express-mixed-views-on-upcoming-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloemfontein residents express mixed views on upcoming elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Residents of Bloemfontein have expressed mixed feelings about the much anticipated general elections. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/the-vexed-act-of-voting-in-south-africas-election-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Some say they will cast their vote, while others say they will not waste their time.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thirty years into democracy and for some residents the change is not visible enough. This while some are not convinced if they should vote.<\/p>\n<p>Jobs and service delivery are issues of discontent \u2013 as residents in different communities highlight it every time. Others can\u2019t wait to put an X next to their preferred political party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not gonna vote because, why should I vote? What\u2019s the future for us? What does the future hold for us as young people? How do we vote for old people who are invested so much on international things?\u201d asks a resident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have registered to vote and I want to see a change that will bring job opportunities for youth,\u201d says a resident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am obliged to vote and I\u2019m definitely voting. So the changes that I wanna see is obviously the issue of NSFAS, the administration of NSFAS is a big issue,\u201d adds another resident.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday South Africans will head to the polls.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll vote using three ballot papers, including the National compensatory ballot, the national regional ballot and provincial legislature ballot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024 Elections | Countdown to 2024 elections: Prof Susan Booysen:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7qDlD3xd-7Y?si=Dl_u288NzMCbEH7D\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes Residents of Bloemfontein have expressed mixed feelings about the much anticipated general elections. Some say they will cast their vote, while others say they will not waste their time. Thirty years into democracy and for some residents the change is not visible enough. This while some are not convinced if they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":967280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1279,679],"class_list":["post-967279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-elections","tag-bloemfontein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}