{"id":49393,"date":"2026-10-29T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T09:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49393"},"modified":"2026-10-29T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T09:26:20","slug":"record-number-of-south-africans-expected-to-vote-early","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/record-number-of-south-africans-expected-to-vote-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Record number of South Africans expected to vote early"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A record number of South Africans are expected to vote on the two days preceding voting day next week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) says it&#8217;s heartened by the huge increase in special votes for the 2026 Local Government Elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Nearly 10% of the 29.2 million registered voters have applied for special votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Police, the army, media workers and healthcare workers have historically voted first during special voting days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">As well as the elderly and those not physically able to visit voting stations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29811,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-49393","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Record number of South Africans are expected to vote","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49393","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\/49393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49395,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49393\/revisions\/49395"}],"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=49393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}