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The IEC will provide details of the final voter registration weekend for the poll; and a breakdown of requirements to both register and make one’s X on the ballot paper in support of the 360 parties set to compete provincially and nationally.
Thankfully, not all of them will be on every ballot paper as a number of parties are only registered to contest in single provinces, and the IEC anticipates that the longest ballot paper will have around 48 parties.Both Cope and the NFP face being banned from contesting the elections over their longstanding leadership disputes: all three parties have had their quarterly funding withheld for failing to balance their books.
For some reason, the would-be independents appear to believe that they can do what the parties have failed to do in recent years — get people to start voting again, and to vote for them, in particular.The last time we voted, in the local government elections in 2021, only 12.2 million South Africans out of 26.2 million who were registered actually voted.
Or the independents, who somehow think their inability to work with anybody else — why else aren’t in the existing parties or the blizzard of new ones — will make them a more attractive choice not to vote for than an existing party.According to the IEC, as things stand, each will need 13 046 signatures from voters to stand for a seat in the national assembly, while another 6 663 will get them onto the ballot paper for a crack at the provincial legislature.
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