{"id":37626,"date":"2026-06-20T16:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37626"},"modified":"2026-06-20T16:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:44:31","slug":"over-330-000-sa-voter-registration-applications-processes-by-mid-day-iec","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/over-330-000-sa-voter-registration-applications-processes-by-mid-day-iec\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 330 000 SA voter registration applications processes by mid day: IEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Commission (IEC) of South Africa says that by midday, over 330 000 voter registration applications had been processed.<\/p>\n<p>The IEC is conducting voter registration across the country this weekend. The 23 706 voting stations are open from 8am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Commission says, \u201cJust over 300 000 transactions were processed on the VMD at voting stations, while 30 000 were applications on the online platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPredictable provinces with population densities account for the majority of the transactions, with KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and the Eastern Cape recording the highest applications. Early indications point to young persons as the majority of applicants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince this morning, our contact centre has facilitated and assisted 640 voters through direct queries, alongside 221 interactions via social media platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29811,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-37626","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The IEC is conducting voter registration across the country this weekend.","published_date":"","news_description":"The IEC is conducting voter registration across the country this weekend.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37628,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37626\/revisions\/37628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}