Government encourages South Africans to vote
Today marks the sixth Local Government Elections in South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994.
GOVERNMENT has reiterated its call to South Africans to head to the polls in their numbers today.
The Local Government Elections gives voters the chance to elect councillors for all district, metropolitan and local municipalities in each of the country’s nine provinces.
Government Communication and Information System’s (GCIS) director general, Phumla Williams said voting is a democratic right.
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“We urge all South Africans to go out in their numbers and exercise this democratic right. To those who feel despondent, we say to you voting matters. Do not sit at home and deprive yourself the right to be a citizen of this country. A citizen who can bring about change as elections are about change. Elections are about somebody reflecting whether the previous leadership represented them. This is your right to correct and elect leadership that you think will do the right thing,” Williams said.
Government has also encouraged first time voters to go out in their numbers and vote as the future of the country lies in their hands.
“The future belongs to the youth. You still have a whole decade ahead of you and you want to inherit the government that you envisage. It is important as a young person to start taking an interest in who is going to govern this country, the country that you want to live in, the country that you want to have a future in,” she said.
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