{"id":41335,"date":"2026-08-02T09:25:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41335"},"modified":"2026-08-02T09:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:25:55","slug":"sunday-marks-final-day-of-voter-registration-ahead-of-sas-local-government-elections","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sunday-marks-final-day-of-voter-registration-ahead-of-sas-local-government-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday marks final day of voter registration ahead of SA\u2019s local government elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Sunday marks the Electoral Commission(IEC)\u2019s last day of its voter registration drive for the South Africa\u2019s (SA) local government elections (LGE) <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">on November 4.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>It says its final voter registration weekend started on a positive note on Saturday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The commission says more than 99% of the country\u2019s 23 699 registration stations opened on time.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>By midday, it had processed more than 238 000 voter registrations.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Addressing the media in Centurion, south of Pretoria, the IEC\u2019s Chief Executive Officer, Sy Mamabolo, explained how some provinces fared.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>\u201cFree State province, 13 000 and the Northern Cape province, 6 000. They are also recording voter activity, as citizens respond positively to the commission\u2019s call to register and update details before the conclusion of the voting station-based registration,\u201d says Mamabolo.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30623,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-41335","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"It says its final voter registration weekend started on a positive note on Saturday.","published_date":"","news_description":"It says its final voter registration weekend started on a positive note on Saturday.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41335","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41336,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41335\/revisions\/41336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}