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MORE THAN ONE MILLION SOUTH AFRICANS REGISTER ON DAY ONE OF VOTER REGISTRATION WEEKEND

10 months ago Phumudzo Makharamedzha

19 November 2023

MORE THAN ONE MILLION SOUTH AFRICANS REGISTER ON DAY ONE OF VOTER REGISTRATION WEEKEND.

The Electoral Commission is pleased to report that Day Two of the Registration Weekend has started exceedingly well. By 08h00, 91 percent of the voting stations had opened with the remainder opening

before 08h30.

At the close of Day One of registration weekend, over a million registrations were recorded at our 23 296 voting stations. 

At 12h30 today, a total of 609 447 registration transactions had been recorded at voting stations.

Provincial breakdown of the registrations recorded at 12h30 today is as follows:

ProvinceBreakdown of Registrations
Eastern Cape118 574
Free State38 860
Gauteng120 294
KwaZulu-Natal108 878
Limpopo82 408
Mpumalanga44 694
Northern Cape15 443
North West42 375
Western Cape37 921

Yesterday the Commission recorded an all-time milestone of over one hundred thousand online registrations. Today the figure of online registrations stands at 40 000.

The Commission is seized with resolving some online registrations that gave a “pending” message. The “pending” message is received by voters in instances where the ID image that they have

uploaded cannot be read or recognised by the system or where an image other than an ID has been uploaded.

We urge voters to take extra care and follow system prompts when uploading images of their ID.

The Commission applauds thousands of South Africans who have gone online and visited our registration stations to register, re-register or check their details. We urge those that have not

done so to use the remaining hours of today to go out in their numbers to register.

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