IEC chief executive, Sy Mamabolo. (IEC/X)
The Electoral Commission of South Africa’s (IEC) chief executive, Sy Mamabolo, said the online voter registration portal recorded 376 000 new voters between January and May, with most users being young South Africans, “our primary target of this campaign”.
“The total number of registered voters currently stands at 27.9 million South Africans,” he said.
“This means that the online registration portal has directly contributed to an increase in the voter’s roll. The size of the voters’ roll now exceeds the figures as they stood in the general elections in 2024.”
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced 4 November as the local election date. Mamabolo said that the IEC loses 34 000 voters a month because of mortality rates.
