One of SA’s hottest DJing talents (I mean musically hot as well as visually appealing) needs the help of the South African public.
Here it is laid out simply:
Get involved in the most important poll in dance music – DJmag’s Top 100 DJs poll. Forget poor imitations, this is THE only poll that matters to DJs and promoters worldwide because it’s voted solely by YOU – the foot soldiers on the dancefloor.
Over the following pages you will be asked to enter your details including your email address, the country you live in and your top 5 DJs of 2009. Please note that your IP address will be logged as part of the process. To complete your vote, you will need to validate it by clicking on a link in an email that will be sent to the email address you provide. Your vote will not count until you have validated it.
Rules
1. You must provide a VALID email address for your vote to count. We use your email to send you a message so that you can validate your vote.
2. To vote you must agree to our privacy policy.
3. Multiple votes are cheating and will automatically be discounted.
4. Voting closes on 23rd September.
5. One vote per person – email addresses and IP addresses will be logged.
6. ANY DJ offering incentives for votes will be disqualified.
So you simply need to go and vote, confirm your vote and tell your mates to vote. Get involved!
Thanks to 2oceansvibe I finally found some photos of expats voting abroad in London:
Here’s the text that accompanied the photos:
Dear Seth,
I’m sure you’ll get a few of these today but here are a couple of pics of voters queuing up outside South Africa House in London this morning for the first ever overseas vote in the SA elections. A historic moment.
I took the photo at 8.55pm just after casting my vote. The voting station opened at 7am – I arrived at 7.10am and just over 1h30m later cast my vote. Hopefully it will make a difference!
Cheers
Johan
I echo Seth’s response: Well done to all expats who are making the effort to vote. Good on you.
UPDATE:
More photographs can be seen over at Ideate.co.za. Great to see more images coming through and the masses of queues at the voting polls.
People in Cape Town go absolutely mental over Table Mountain and it is no wonder to me why.
They use it as a navigational aid, they use it as justification for living in CT, hell, they even use it to predict the weather and speak of blankets emerging from behind the mountain and cover the top of the table with some sort of cloth (I think that is a reference to what other folk like to call “clouds”).
But let’s just be honest here for a second, Table mountain is, without the shadow of a doubt, one of the most incredible wonders of our world that is still standing, has not been destroyed and provides many people with an immense amount of joy and pride.
What better reason do you need then to go and vote for Table Mountain to become one of the new 7 wonders of the world.
The SA Blog Awards nomination period is almost coming to a close. Now don’t get ahead of yourself and become all SA Blog Awarded out, cause that would suck.
There is still another round of voting that needs to take place. The second round is more simple, you simply click and vote for the nominee that you think should win the various awards that are up.
Straight from the horses mouth and compliments of the Cooksister‘s wily eyes:
Constitutional Court ruling on overseas voting
12 Mar 2009
The Constitutional Court this morning delivered judgements in various cases concerning voting by citizens finding themselves outside the country on Election Day.
As we understand, the outcome can be summarised as follows:
1. All South Africans, registered on the voters� roll, who will be outside the country on Election Day and therefore unable to vote at the voting stations where they are registered, will be able to vote by special vote. They will be able to vote by special vote on 15 April 2009 at any South African Embassy, High Commission or Consulate outside South Africa.
2. These voters must notify the Chief Electoral Officer on or before 27 March 2009 of their intention to do so and at the same time indicate at which Embassy, High Commission or Consulate they want to vote on 15 April 2009.
3. South Africans who will be outside the country on 22 April, but want to vote at their voting station on 20 or 21 April 2009 must notify the Chief Electoral Officer on or before 27 March 2009 of their intention to do so. They will vote at the office of the Presiding Officer which will be located at or near their voting station.
The Electoral Commission is satisfied that it will be able to manage the extended special voting process successfully. The fact that only registered voters will be able to utilise the 15-day period of application for special votes as decided by the Court is within the IEC�s operational ability. We appeal to all South Africans affected by this ruling to immediately utilise this opportunity to notify the Chief Electoral Officer of their intention to vote.
For more information including the downloading of the necessary forms (VEC10), please visit the IEC website on www.elections.org.za. The completed VEC10 forms should be emailed to vec10@elections.org.za by 27 March 2009 or faxed to 012-428 5566/012-428 5279 or mailed to Attention: Chief Electoral Officer, Electoral Commission, PO Box 7943, Pretoria 0001 or hand delivered to Attention: Chief Electoral Officer, Election House, 260 Walker Street, Sunnyside, Pretoria
ISSUED BY THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION
Pretoria
12 March 2009
For media enquiries please contact Kate Bapela on 082 600 6386
Today, the Constitutional Court ruled ruled in favour of the DA’s court application that South Africans who are living temporarily abroad and who are registered as voters must be allowed to cast their vote in the upcoming elections.
The Constitutional Court also granted a new 15 day period for South Africans abroad to apply for a special vote overseas.
This 15 day period has begun and all South Africans who are registered to vote and who want to apply for a special vote must get their applications submitted to the IEC before 27 March 2009.
The DA encourages every South African who is living abroad and who is registered to vote to apply for a special vote so that you can have your say in the upcoming elections.
Johannesburg – The Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that registered voters living overseas can vote for the National Assembly in the April 22 elections.
They must notify the chief electoral officer of their intention to vote by March 27, the court ordered.
Handing down the first of two separate judgments Justice Kate O’Regan said the right to vote had a symbolic and democratic value.
However, the court did not support the move to allow registration abroad. Only registered voters abroad will be eligible to vote.
Fantastic news just came through via sms on my cellphone.
The PTA high court has ruled in favour of South Africans living abroad. They are now eligible to vote from overseas.
This can only be good news for our democracy moving forward. I think this is a great victory for the people of South African and our constitution.
From a SAPA report:
Pretoria – South Africans abroad should be allowed to vote, the Pretoria High Court ruled on Monday.
Handing down judgment, Acting Judge Piet Ebersohn ruled that the current legislation infringed on the rights of South Africans living abroad.
The court ruled that the electoral act “limited” the casting of votes to people temporarily living abroad. It referred the judgment to the Constitutional Court for confirmation.
The Independent Electoral Commission was also ordered to change its voting procedures so as to allow South Africans living abroad to vote.
Judgment may be overruled
Speaking outside the court, Freedom Front Plus spokesperson Willie Spies said the Constitutional Court could overrule the judgment.
The FF Plus brought the application on behalf of a South African school teacher living in the United Kingdom.
Currently certain groups, including government employees and people on holiday and business trips, could have arrangements made for special votes.
The party would file an application in the Pretoria High Court asking that the proclamation of the voting day be postponed to allow the Constitutional Court ample time to consider the matter.
The application was expected to be heard shortly after midday.
Last year I wrote a very heated and controversial post about an anti-crime march that was held in London. I was a bit confused about the action and that people abroad should come home and fight for their country.
This year on December 6th 2008 South Africans living in London will gather to march for their right to vote. This is something that I wholeheartedly support. I am extremely impressed by the initiative and if I was there, I would march too. Why the hell shouldn’t Saffas abroad be allowed to vote if they intend on returning to SA?
Today I went to my nearest IEC registration station and changed my registration details from Grahamstown to Johannesburg.
The process was simple, the queues were managed well, the forms were readily available, everything worked perfectly.
I was chatting to someone yesterday who made a really valid point, this is the first time (out of the three) that I have gone to register and have had people actually talking about politics, registration and voting, alot. It’s great to hear, great to see and fantastic to know that politics is no longer one of the things you never bring up at a dinner party.
