{"id":684,"date":"2024-05-29T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/?post_type=election&#038;p=684"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:04:08","slug":"south-africa-elections-2024","status":"publish","type":"election","link":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/election\/south-africa-elections-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"line-height:1.7\">Lack of policies addressing <strong>fake news and cyber-bullying<\/strong> was prevalent, potentially influencing voters and candidates.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"line-height:1.7\"><strong>Political parties campaigned at voting stations<\/strong>, creating an environment that could intimidate voters and lead to tensions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"line-height:1.7\">In urban areas, many <strong>voters arrived late in the day<\/strong>. The IEC managed this by allowing those in line after official hours to vote, with some stations remaining open into the night.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"line-height:1.7\">Delays occurred due to<strong> issues with electoral equipment<\/strong>, connectivity, and shortages of key materials like ink and ballot papers. Load shedding also impacted station operations, delaying openings and causing slow voting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"line-height:1.7\">Section 24A, concerning <strong>voting at non-registered polling stations<\/strong>, was inconsistently applied. Some stations allowed voters to complete a required form, while others redirected them to their registered station.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"line-height:1.7\"><strong>Observers were sometimes mistaken for party agents<\/strong>, with officials asking them to provide Annexure 4. This led to confusion across multiple provinces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5771,"template":"election","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"grantees":[36],"observer":[27,28,29,30,26],"partner":[11,54,8,59],"region":[19],"class_list":["post-684","election","type-election","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","grantees-kwazulu-natal-christian-council","observer-e-horn","observer-elections-observation-group","observer-esn-sa","observer-kwazulu-natal-christian-council","observer-zimbabwe-election-support-network","partner-e-horn","partner-elog-kenya","partner-esn-sa","partner-zesn","region-south-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/election\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/election"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/election"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"grantees","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grantees?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"observer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/observer?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"partner","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partner?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahead.africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}