SA national elections 2024: Overseas voting dates CONFIRMED

The deadline for registering to vote in the 2024 South Africa national elections – if you are based outside of Mzansi – has now passed.

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In an effort to make the voting process as simple as possible, the SAPeople website has exclusively engaged the help and expert assistance of Hayley Reichert to answer some of the more frequently asked questions (FAQs).

Reichert, who left Durban in 2008, now resides in London.

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South Africans living in South Africa who are eligible to vote and have registered to do so, will go to the polls on Wednesday, 29 May 2024.

The day will be a public holiday.

But when do those South Africans living outside of the country – who are eligible to vote and have registered to do so – get to mark their X?

Reichert has confirmed that according to the IEC, if you live in an Islamic country, you will cast your vote on Friday, 17 May.

For everyone else registered to vote outside of Mzansi, you will do so on Saturday, 18 May.

For more on the above – and other FAQs – have a listen to the video below:

Hayley Reichert is a passionate South African, based in London. She has held roles with the SA Chamber of Commerce (UK), Nedbank SA Charity Golf Day, Democratic Alliance Abroad – where she initiated the loss of citizenship campaign – Home Away From Home repatriation & Project LISA (Locked in SA) expatriation projects during SA airspace closure in 2020 and Move One Million. Hayley also assisted South Africans who fled Ukraine at the start of the Russian invasion and is currently working on a project to support a change in the political trajectory of South Africa in the 2024 General Elections.