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While many young people have a belief that they have a duty to vote, their sense of disillusionment impacts on their showing up at the polls.

The studies, commissioned by the Electoral Commission, were conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council, as well as pan-African survey group, Afrobarometer.

“The dominant recurring message is that political disinterest is consistently the main reason for the intention not to vote looking back over the last 15 years. Fluctuates between around 65 percent up to about 74 and in 2018 it went as high as 78 percent so this disillusionment is really quite crucial.”

Other barriers identified for a failure to turn up at the polls is the failure to register. There are a number of administrative and logistical reasons why this may be the case. Roberts says the introduction of online voter registration has been widely welcomed by the youth in particular. He also says that political parties have a role to play in advancing, saying while the populace is generally forgiving of unfulfilled promises there are deeper risks to the system as a whole.

“Lets look at the demographic characteristics of those who said they do not feel close to a political party and we’ll see in terms of education levels of education this was highest amongst post secondary and secondary the more higher educated categories, it was highest amongst the lower cohorts 18 to 24 /25 and 34 particularly also in the in the provinces of Gauteng and the Western Cape.”

 

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