Registration and inspection

The Voters' Roll, which contains over 20 million names, has to be maintained on a continuous basis.

Registration/inspection times

The voters’ roll can be inspected and voters may update their registration details either at the office of their Municipal Electoral Officer (MEO) during office hours or at their voting station on registration days before the close of the voters’ roll for a particular election. The voters’ roll closes for an election on the day that the date of the election is proclaimed in the government gazette.

The voters’ roll closed for municipal elections 2006 on 6 January 2006.

For more information please contact the IEC toll-free on 0800 11 8000.

Individuals affected

In maintaining the Voters' Roll, voters must:

• Be added
• Have their details changed
• Be taken off the Voters’ Roll

New voters to be added to Voters' Roll

• South African citizens who have not previously registered
• South African citizens turning 16 (but remember, you can only vote when you are 18 years old)
• Newly naturalized citizens (with a bar-coded South African Identity Document showing their SA citizenship)

People wishing to change their registration details

• Correction of change of ordinary residence
• Change of Identity Number (e.g. new ID number due to change in date of birth)

People to be taken off the Voters' Roll

• People who have died