With election day less than a month away, Vukile Dlwati looks at the country's state of readiness ahead of the 2024 polls.
JOHANNESBURG –"Elections","politics","voting","IEC","Electoral Court", and"independent candidate" are some of the inevitable buzzwords in the South African lexicon ahead of the national and provincial polls.
Furthermore, eligible voters will each receive three ballot papers - namely the national compensatory , the national regional and the provincial legislature .The Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa , despite its widely recognised track record of credibility and integrity, is burdened with so much more this time around, not only administratively, with the addition of a third ballot paper, but legally too.
However, it has previously noted that it can’t verify signatures that political parties and independent candidates submit. Meanwhile, political analyst, Melanie Verwoerd, says it will be interesting to see how the allegations of signature theft will play out. In an about turn, the MK Party approached the Electoral Court to challenge the IEC’s decision and the court would later rule against the IEC.
"Unless we really pay attention to it because voters' voices are often lost but I think it's going to be really important to have conversations where voters express their anxieties and their concerns." Verwoerd says it remains to be seen"whether the ANC picks up. If the polls show no indication of that, well, then they're going to stick at the 40%, which the polls have been showing for the last few months… their momentum is getting bigger and bigger.
Dooms also sees"greater levels and heightened levels of preparedness", referring to the Economic Freedom Fighters who have gone as far as setting up call centres for their election campaign.
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