{"id":967337,"date":"2024-05-27T14:53:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T14:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967337"},"modified":"2024-05-27T14:53:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T14:53:41","slug":"iec-to-conduct-51-000-home-visits-for-special-votes-in-western-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/iec-to-conduct-51-000-home-visits-for-special-votes-in-western-cape\/","title":{"rendered":"IEC to conduct 51 000 home visits for special votes in Western Cape"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over 51 000 home visits will be conducted by Electoral Commission (IEC) officials in the Western Cape for the two days of special votes.<\/p>\n

The IEC says it\u2019s received nearly 136 000 special vote applications in the province.\u00a0 The elderly, infirm, or those who will not be able to vote on Wednesday have begun casting their ballots.<\/p>\n

Senior citizens at iKhaya Loxolo old age home in Gugulethu \u2026 making their mark. Some say they are exercising their democratic right for a change in the country and have urged every South African to do the same.<\/p>\n

Officials have been diligent in ensuring a smooth process.<\/p>\n

Voter Thembisa Maninjwa says, \u201cWe need to vote and everyone needs to vote so that that we can win the votes in the party that we voted for and everything will go accordingly. If we don\u2019t vote we won\u2019t be known in other places. voting is important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Voter Sipho Mvalo \u201cI\u00a0want to see more changes than the changes that we have now so that they can look after us all.\u201d<\/p>\n

IEC officials at the Pinelands High School voting station say they have about 90 special vote stations and over 100 home visits scheduled for the day.<\/p>\n

Former deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Fatima Chohan says, \u201cOn Wednesday, I\u2019m a volunteer taking older people to the voting stations so that\u2019s why we registered for a special vote my daughter and myself. They found our names on the voters\u2019 rolls very easily. We were offered the three ballot papers very efficiently and because it was a special day there was not too much in terms of queue time.\u201d<\/p>\n

DA Federal Chairperson Helen Zille, also made use of the special vote as she will not be able to vote here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany people have said it\u2019s the most important election since 1994, and I would agree with that. I think it\u2019s going to be the first time that the ANC falls under 50% and it will never get above 50% again. this is a proportional representation system and they are likely to keep on falling. it\u2019s been the pattern of liberation movements throughout the whole of Africa but I was joking when I told you I wasn\u2019t going to tell you who I\u2019m voting for. Obviously, I voted for the DA on all three ballots.\u201d<\/p>\n

She has urged every registered voter to come out and cast their vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would love as the DA to get 51% nationally, obviously we would love that and it would be brilliant for South Africa if that were to happen, you do your polling every day and you know what your reality is. I\u2019m satisfied we will go forward and I\u2019m really hoping the multi-party charter will get over the line, but in the western cape, I\u2019m confident the da will hold an overall majority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Special voting will continue on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Over 51 000 home visits will be conducted by Electoral Commission (IEC) officials in the Western Cape for the two days of special votes. The IEC says it\u2019s received nearly 136 000 special vote applications in the province.\u00a0 The elderly, infirm, or those who will not be able to vote on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":967338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1940,1705,2718,1593,2719,277],"class_list":["post-967337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1940","tag-electoral-commission","tag-home-affairs","tag-iec","tag-special-voting","tag-western-cape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967337","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}