{"id":47954,"date":"2026-10-14T16:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47954"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:11:08","slug":"iec-sa-approves-2-6-mln-special-vote-applications-for-november-local-government-elections","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/iec-sa-approves-2-6-mln-special-vote-applications-for-november-local-government-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"IEC SA approves 2.6 mln special vote applications for November local government elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The Electoral Commission (IEC) of South Africa (SA) Chief Executive Officer, Sy Mamabolo has announced that 2.6 special vote applications have been approved for the upcoming November local government elections.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The applications allow a registered voter who can&#8217;t cast their ballot on the day to vote before election day.<\/div>\n<div>Briefing the media on the state of readiness for the upcoming elections, Mamabolo announced that the special vote will be held <span dir=\"ltr\">on November 2<\/span> and 3.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014ChannelAfrica\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37686,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-47954","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The applications allow a registered voter who can't cast their ballot on the day to vote before election day. ","published_date":"","news_description":"The applications allow a registered voter who can't cast their ballot on the day to vote before election day. ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47954","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\/47954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47956,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47954\/revisions\/47956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}