Times Of Swaziland: OVER 10 000 HAVE REGISTERED SO FAR

OVER 10 000 HAVE REGISTERED SO FAR
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 BY THEMBINKOSI MAVIMBELA on 16/05/2018 04:26:00


MBABANE – Despite challenges, over 10 000 people have already registered for
this year’s upcoming national elections.
The Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) Public Relations Officer Mbonisi
Bhembe, revealed the numbers yesterday during an interview.
Registration started on Sunday and encountered challenges which included network
failure and registration kits not working properly. Bhembe said although they
did not have all the numbers due to network challenges, the information they had
was that over 10 000 had registered countrywide. This was at around 4pm
yesterday.
Bhembe narrated that they might not have information from some stations due to
network challenges. He said data from such stations did not reflect in their
system and would render the figure not a true reflection of the real figures.
“Right now we have over 10 000 registered people,” Bhembe said.
He stated that yesterday their focus was more on identifying challenges in the
various registration centres. He said they wanted to see whether registration
centres would report any today, and by the time of compiling this report, he did
not have any bad report. He said positive feedback did not help them much as
they needed to know which challenges needed to be addressed.