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Applications for special votes for the 18 May local government elections will start on 15 April, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) chief electoral officer, Adv Pansy Tlakula, announced on Friday.

Briefing reporters on the IEC’s countdown to the 2011 municipal elections shortly after the IEC consultative meeting with political parties on the election timetable, Tlakula said special votes will take place two days before Election Day.

Applications for special votes will close on 3 May at 5pm. This is the first time the IEC introduces special votes for local elections since the dawn of democracy in 1994.

Tlakula said registered voters who qualify and whose applications were considered for special votes will casts their votes in the voting district where they are registered from 8am until 5pm.

However, she said on 17 May, IEC officials will embark on home visits for registered voters who qualify to cast special votes and these include heavily pregnant women and those who cannot walk to their nearest voting station as a result of poor health.

The IEC on Friday also published the election timetable in the government gazette following their meeting with political organisations’ national liaison committee representatives.

Adv also appealed to all organs of civil society to join the IEC in the efforts of the Commission to promote maximum participation in the forthcoming municipal elections.

Young voters are encouraged to follow registration and election developments on the newly created mobile site on mobi.elections.org.za or on Twitter on www.twitter/iecloveyoursa.

The voters’ roll closed on Thursday following the proclamation of the Election Date by acting Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister, Nathi Mthethwa. – Nthambeleni Gabara, BuaNews

Asof today IECLoveyourSA had 203 Twitter followers.

The tweets from the IECLoveyourSA account are predominantly the type of tweets you would expect from a site promoting tourism in South Africa, examples below:

  • SA and its neighbours soak up just over half of the world’s highest category of solar wattage per square metre of land. #LoveYourSA
  • SA has the largest reserves of gold (35%), manganese (80%), chromium (68%), and platinum-group metals (56%). #LoveYourSA
  • There are only 12 countries in the world that supply tap water that is fit 2 drink, and SA is 1 of them. #LoveYourSA
  • The world’s biggest hospital is Chris Hani -Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, Johannesburg. #LoveYourSA
  • Reason # 2 to vote: Our govt was designed 4 citizen participation, so if u don’t vote – others will make decisions 4 u.
  • #1 Reason to Vote: It’s your right! Young people, women and underrepresented groups all fought hard for the right to vote. #LoveYourSA
  • There are over 2000 shipwrecks, dating back at least 500 yrs, off the SA coast. Many of these simply vanished without a trace. #LoveYourSA

OKay guys enough of the lovey dovey feel good stuff lets start hearing tweets about the election ONLY.

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Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." See more articles by Alan.