GENERAL ELECTION
Top court to rule on fate of KZN voters
As many as 1.3-million registered voters in KwaZulu-Natal do not have addresses to meet the requirement for a credible voters' roll
The Constitutional Court will decide whether more than 1.3-million registered voters in KwaZulu-Natal will be allowed to participate in the 2019 general election. That is according to the Independent Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) in the province, which began a campaign on Monday to get people to visit voting stations on March 10 and 11 to update their details on the voters' roll ahead of the general election. Thabani Ngwira‚ IEC KwaZulu-Natal communications officer‚ said that figures on the voters roll showed that in KwaZulu-Natal there were 5‚317‚661 registered voters. "Of this figure‚ 555‚979 have no addresses while 832‚616 have incomplete addresses," he said. "This brings the total number of voters with no addresses in KwaZulu-Natal to 1‚388‚595." This comes after the Constitutional Court’s finding that the IEC had failed to collect and maintain addresses for a credible voters roll. The Electoral Court ordered the IEC to postpone by-elections in Tlokwe‚ in the North West‚ afte...
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