Friday Focus: Voter Disengagement with Warwick Chapman
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It Has Never Been Easier to Register. So Why Are So Few?
The North Coast is one of the fastest-growing regions in the country, with new homes and new families arriving every month. Yet on the last registration weekend, just 2 941 people across all 30 wards in KwaDukuza put themselves on the voters roll for the first time.
Registering has never been easier, and the message has never been louder. So this is not about people who cannot register. It is about people choosing not to. Penny Fourie sits down with Warwick Chapman of the KwaDukuza Residents Forum to ask why so many are tuning out of the local government elections, and whether voters still believe the vote changes anything at all.
The North Coast is one of the fastest-growing regions in the country, with new homes and new families arriving every month. Yet on the last registration weekend, just 2 941 people across all 30 wards in KwaDukuza put themselves on the voters roll for the first time.
Registering has never been easier, and the message has never been louder. So this is not about people who cannot register. It is about people choosing not to. Penny Fourie sits down with Warwick Chapman of the KwaDukuza Residents Forum to ask why so many are tuning out of the local government elections, and whether voters still believe the vote changes anything at all.
