One Goal for The Independent Electoral commission and Rhodes University Towards Democracy

By Mncedisi Maseko

The Independent Electoral Commission established a campaign towards a civic and

democratic education.

The collaboration with Rhodes university is to educate the youth about the importance

of voting and their democratic rights and responsibilities.

Picture from the internet

Picture from the Internet 

The campaign’s objective is to engage students’ views about electoral democracy and

the impact of participation thereof through debate and promote online voter registration

to students.

The campaign does not only focus on Rhodes university, but it also ventures into other

universities as it was hosting an online event at North West University with Mr. Sy

Mamabolo the Chief Electoral Officer at the Electoral Commission Of South Africa (IEC).

“The president ought to have satisfied himself that we are indeed ready to deliver the

election,” said the IEC Deputy CEO Masego Sheburi.

The IEC continues to urge young people who qualify to vote to register online as it

shares the official link on its social media pages such as X/Twitter for young people to

follow and do the right thing by registering.

This is an official link to follow from the IEC to register.

https://registertovote.elections.org.za/Welcome

These are some of the views shared by students about voting as to whether they are

registered to vote or not. https://soundcloud.com/user-830942569/first_source-1 & https://soundcloud.com/user-830942569/second_source