Tuesday, February 08, 2011

IEC releases voter registration figures today

By Lelethu Mquqo
8 February 2011

The Independent Electoral Commission officials say voter registration was sluggish this weekend.

By the end of Saturday, only 400-thousand people had registered countrywide.

The IEC’s chief electoral officer, Pansy Tlakula, says the target of registering one-point-five-million voters was steep.

Final figures for the weekend will be released today.

Meanwhile, Parliament’s Joint Committee on Ethics and Members’ Interests will meet to elect a co-chairperson from the National Assembly.

“The position became vacant when former co-chair Mr Luwellyn Landers was elected the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development following the Cabinet reshuffle late last year”, IEC said in a statement.

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