'My vote counts a lot'
04 August 2016 - 08:30
About 1.9 million people aged 18 and 19 were eligible to vote yesterday, the Institute for Security Studies said, but according to the Independent Electoral Commission only 506,561 had bothered to register. The Times asked young people why they were voting."I am a born-free," said Banele Swaartz, 22, in Johannesburg.
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