One-million or more South Africans who are forced to work abroad because of the poor economic conditions , the out of control violent crime epidemic and the 'anti-white' labour laws, have been stripped of their constitutional rights to vote...
London UK - On December 6, South African workers in London held a protest march against the fact that they have been stripped of their voting rights.
The marchers started assembling from about 12 noon at the Temple Underground Station, on the Circle & District lines, London UK.telephone contact: 4402087853116 E-mail: info@sayfa.org.za
More than a million South Africans are working and living abroad, and they want to vote in the forthcoming presidential elections - but can't, only because of bureaucratic incompetence. The London-based spokesman for the SA Youth Forum Abroad said: "We are not allowed to vote in the South African general elections unless we go back home to register and then return again to cast our vote.'
The rights of SA minorities as entrenched in the Constitution - video:
The SA Centre for Constitutional Rights, which was recently launched by the F W de Klerk foundation, has also been encouraged by this week's comment from the country's independent electorial commission head Brigalia Bam that she would 'examine' the disenfranchisements of the estimated 1-million or so South African who have to work abroad.
Dr Bam of the IEC informed the opposition Democratic Alliance's leader Helen Zille this week that she would 'positively examine' all the requests and petitions that South Africans living overseas be allowed to vote in next year’s general elections. http://constitutionallyspeaking.co.za/?p=727
The South African citizens abroad weren't able to vote in the previous presidential elections either, but special polling stations had been set up for them during the country's very first democratic elections, when Nelson Mandela was elected. With the new presidentials now looming ever-closer, and the country plunged in a worsening political crisis due to the deep divisions inside the ruling party leadership, South Africans abroad are increasingly disgruntled about this inequal treatment. They point out that the hundreds of thousands of convicted criminals in the country's prisons are given special access to polling stations -- yet law-abiding citizens like themselves, many of whom also send support money to the folks back home, are being denied all access to the polling stations abroad: these will only process the votes of foreign affairs officials and their relatives stationed at SA's foreign embassies.
"We have been stripped of our right to vote. The actions of the South African government and Independent Electoral Commission to withhold all the voting rights of SA citizens abroad by not setting up voting stations conflicts with the Electoral Act of 1998,' said a SA Youth Forum Abroad spokesman.
SIGN THE PETITION here:
SEE VIDEO BY ORGANISER OF MARCH:
http://www.myvideo.co.za/video/march-for-your-right-to-vote-london
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