After the registration weekend on 20 and 21 June, there were 28.5-million people on the voters’ roll. That’s about 64% of people in South Africa who are 18 years and older.
The percentage has not increased since the last government elections in 2021, when there were 26.2-million people and about 40.6-million eligible voters.
There are, however, more people on the voters’ roll than the 27.7-million people who were registered for the 2024 national election.
Nearly three million people participated in the recent registration weekend, but most people were just updating their details. Only about 477,000 people were registering for the first time.
Between 2000 and 2016, the percentage of eligible voters registered to vote grew from 69% to 70%, before…
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