As formations to unseat the ruling party ahead of the 2024 general elections begin to take shape, claims are being made about what the opposition says is the poor state of the country. Are they all correct?
The Electoral Commission of South Africa keeps up-to-date voter registration statistics on its website. As of 23 August 2023,According to Stats SA’s 2022 mid-year population estimates, the latest available, there wereBut the legal voting age in South Africa is 18. And Stats SA’s population estimates include “all people and not just South Africans who would be eligible to vote”, Diego Iturralde, executive manager in demographic analysis at Stats SA, told Africa Check.
He said Stats SA would soon provide the IEC with statistics on the voting age population by municipality, sex and age. But using an earliest possible election date of 22 May 2023 and a projection of the 2011 census estimates, controlled for citizenship, the total voting age population would be about 40,096,944, he said.Steenhuisen’s claim is therefore
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