“South Africans are saying that the time for political parties making promises is coming to an end – the country now wants action and tangible results,” writes Brent Lindeque in GoodThingsGuy citing the latest data insights from Citizen Surveys. Strategic Research Director, Reza Omar, says, “Just under...
City Press writes that there are 35 million South Africans who were eligible to vote in the elections last week. Only 26 million bothered to register to vote. Of that number, only 17 million actually voted on Wednesday. In percentage terms, 65% of the registered voters...
In her City Press article, Palesa Dlamini explains that the 2019 general elections recorded the lowest voter turnout since South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994. In this year’s elections, the registered South African voter population came in at 26 779 025, a 5.47% increase from...
Reza Omar was live from the IEC Western Cape Results Centre on the 9 and 10 May 2019 with eNCA to speak to the 17% of undecided voters in the Western Cape. #SAElections2019 . Watch all five interviews here: First Interview: https://vimeo.com/337464969 Second Interview: https://vimeo.com/337465299 Third Interview: https://vimeo.com/337466586 Fourth Interview: https://vimeo.com/337467018 Fifth Interview: https://vimeo.com/337468251 ...
The main reason registered young people will not be voting is because they are unemployed and unmotivated, a study found. A recent article by Gcina Ntsaluba shows that approximately 1.7-million young South Africans who are eligible to vote will not be participating in the polls today,...
“The promises are empty: South Africans vote, but the nation’s young people abstain in droves,” writes Max Bearak in The Washington Post. He cites our South African Citizens Survey (SACS) insights on how only 22% of South Africans believe the country is headed in the...
Sharon Wood’s article in Business Maverick explains that political parties and South Africa have a major challenge as voters gear themselves up to go — or not to go — to the polls on Wednesday 8 May. It’s the perception that none of the political parties...
The Wall Street Journal writes that millions of young black voters born after the end of apartheid have known little but poverty and marginalization following years of ANC governance A quarter-century after Nelson Mandela became this nation’s first black president, his African National Congress is struggling...
Ferrial Haffajee’s article in Fin24 writes that, at Stage 4 load shedding, the ANC election outcome would have been lower than now expected. Across three different sets of opinion polls, the ANC is set for a decent victory even after what its own leaders have called...
News24 explains the three key factors that will influence the 2.2 million undecided voters in the upcoming SA Elections 2019, according to the latest South African Citizens Survey (SACS) data. These factors are: (1) Political party and political leader preferences (2) Party alignment with solving priority issues (3) Perceptions...