SA Rocks

Homecomingrevolution blogged photos from News 24 today about the protest/march held in the UK that I could support and do support.

Here’s one of the photos:

Head over to the HCR Blog for more.

Popularity: 6% [?]

Finally the USA can once again be looked at with a little less disdain. Obama wins. The first African-American President, back to Democratic, liberal and young leadership.

Popularity: 4% [?]

I can only imagine that a large percentage of people reading this have no clue. Well never fear there is a way to find out.

Simple visit the IEC (Independant Electoral Commission) website and enter your ID number. Or you can sms your ID number to 32810.

The reason that I insinuate that many people have no idea whether they are registered or not is because of the below:

Basically, less than half the population is currently registered to vote. Guess what? That’s not only the uneducated, rural-dwelling South Africans. We are talking about a massive portion of the country who aren’t even registered to vote, never mind those who actually voted.

My suggestion is to find out and then subsequent to your registration or lack thereof, got off your apathetic backside and register to vote on the 8th and 9th of November this year from 8am to 5pm on each day. Get on it. In our democracy, one of proportional representation, EVERY VOTE COUNTS.

And just for interest sake, here’s a map of voter registration:

Popularity: 8% [?]

I just read a post with some interesting results on Engadget. Basically, 61% of Americans that participated in the poll and were old enough to vote (18) said that they would vote via SMS. 8 out of 10 (80%) of people who participated and were under the age of 18 said that they would also vote with their phones.

In a country (SA) struggling with voter apathy and overwhelmed with mobile activity I think this is a very interesting question.

I think that if I had almost 100% certainty that the voting polls on my cellphone were above board and would work then I would probably vote via SMS.

Would you?

Popularity: 5% [?]