Cape Town - The second and last voter registration weekend across the country comes full circle today ahead of 18 May municipal elections.
Courtney Simpson Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) head in the Western Cape said that the results for the latest round would be announced at a national level on Wednesday.
In most of the registration stations around the Mother City visited by BuaNews earlier in the morning, IEC officials refused to talk to the media about the registration trends.
However, an official at Woodstock Community Hall said that they were busy yesterday, recording 114 people who checked for their names on the voters' roll and another who 44 registered for the first time.
At Observatory Junior High School, while the officials were tight-lipped regarding registration figures, they said that they had been "busy".
In the towships, Ayanda Nongogo, 18, who came to register for the first time at Langa High Schools, said that he was excited about the experience and aimed to vote for an African National Congress (ANC) councilor in the elections.
"They (ANC) will do a good job to improve service delivery in our area," he said.
He said that he wanted to see infrastructure development in his neighbourhood such the building of better hospitals and housing and the job creation.
Simphiwe Qubela, 28, who was registering for the first time at a station in Philippi, said: "We need more jobs."
He said that that he would vote for a councilor who was going to "help us...we need houses. We need to be moved to a much better place."
Echoing Nongogo's wish, Qubela said that he wanted to see service delivery and job creation in the community. - BuaNews
