{"id":46090,"date":"2026-09-22T07:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T05:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46090"},"modified":"2026-09-22T07:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T05:59:12","slug":"sa-special-vote-applications-open-for-2026-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-special-vote-applications-open-for-2026-local-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"SA special vote applications open for 2026 local elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Electoral Commission of South Africa (SA) has announced that applications for special votes for the 2026 Local Government Elections opened on Monday \u00a0until Monday, October 12.<\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Special votes fall into two broad categories, that of home visits for people who are unable to present themselves physically at a voting station owing to a physical condition.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The second is for those who cannot vote at their voting station on voting day, such as those working in essential services and the media.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014Channel Africa\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29811,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-46090","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The second is for those who cannot vote at their voting station on voting day, such as those working in essential services and the media.","published_date":"","news_description":"The second is for those who cannot vote at their voting station on voting day, such as those working in essential services and the media.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46090","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\/46090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46094,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46090\/revisions\/46094"}],"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=46090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}