{"id":967370,"date":"2024-05-28T10:29:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T10:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967370"},"modified":"2024-05-28T10:29:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T10:29:53","slug":"iec-in-zululand-confident-of-completing-special-votes-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/iec-in-zululand-confident-of-completing-special-votes-today\/","title":{"rendered":"IEC in Zululand confident of completing special votes today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">Electoral Commission (IEC) regional manager in the Zululand District in KwaZulu-Natal, Mazwi Zungu, <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">says\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">he is confident they would have administered all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/kzn-communities-urged-to-respect-iec-officials-during-special-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special votes<\/a> and home visits by 17:00 today<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Over 300 000 people have registered to cast their special votes<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">\u00a0in<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">\u00a0the<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0province. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">The Zululand District is one of the province\u2019s deepest rural parts with poor road infrastructure prolonging the time of home visits. <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">It <\/span>comprises areas such as Ulundi, Nongoma, Abaqulusi, Pongola and Paulpietersburg. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">The rural district is engulfed by a number of challenges such as poor road infrastructure and water. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">Despite this, the IEC says day one of the special votes commenced without major interruptions. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">There are over 20 000 people<\/span><\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">\u00a0who <\/span>have registered to cast their special votes at\u00a0<span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">over 500 voting stations in this district.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>VIDEO | First day of special votes in Zululand:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LXOV-1LgO4o?si=HtveyO44HtQ0JCEk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute Electoral Commission (IEC) regional manager in the Zululand District in KwaZulu-Natal, Mazwi Zungu, says\u00a0he is confident they would have administered all special votes and home visits by 17:00 today.\u00a0 Over 300 000 people have registered to cast their special votes\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0province. \u00a0 The Zululand District is one of the province\u2019s deepest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":967371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1591,2749,1705,1593,2750,2751,2752,2415,2753,2754],"class_list":["post-967370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-general-elections","tag-abaqulusi","tag-electoral-commission","tag-iec","tag-nongoma","tag-paulpietersburg","tag-pongola","tag-special-votes","tag-ulundi","tag-zululand-district-in-kwazulu-natal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967370","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}