This info below appears on the South African High Commission website in Canberra, Australia.
Election 2009
General Information - Registered Overseas Voters
South African citizens who are registered voters in South Africa and who intend to vote outside of South Africa in Elections 2009 are required to notify the IEC of SA of their intention to vote outside of SA by 27 March 2009.
The notification period has been extended by the Constitutional Court ruling of 12 March 2009.
To notify the IEC, registered voters are required to complete a VEC 10 form and return it to the IEC by 27 March 2009.
To obtain a VEC 10 form and IEC contact details, please refer to www.elections.org.za and go to `special votes’.
To check if you are a registered voter, on the IEC’s web site go to `Am I registered’ and type in your identity number on-line. Voting outside of SA for Elections 2009 will occur on 15 April 2009 (and not on 22 April 2009) at South African Diplomatic and Consular missions abroad.
Once your notification to vote outside of SA is approved by the IEC, you are required to present both your bar-coded South African citizenship identity document (or valid temporary identity certificate) and your (South African) passport to a South African Diplomatic or Consular mission on 15 April 2009.
In this regard, a citizen registered to vote outside the Republic will present both their bar-coded South African citizenship identity document (or valid temporary identity certificate) as well as their South African passport when voting.
Voting in Australia will take placed on 15 April 2009 at the South African High Commission in Canberra and in New Zealand on the same date in Wellington.
1 Opinion(s):
Piece on this please:
"In 2005, there were 8 144 South African teachers in Britain, compared with 916 Indians and 2 065 Canadians.
Developed countries such as Britain stated in the research that teachers from developing countries were leaving their home countries because of poor pay.
South African-born researcher Guy Mulvaney said the government was not using the protocol to its advantage.
Mulvaney said the study also looked at pay as a "push factor in the migration of teachers to the UK".
On average, 70 percent of the teachers in the study indicated that pay levels at home were unsatisfactory, but 90 percent of South African teachers, compared to 60 percent of Australians, indicated they were dissatisfied with their overseas work conditions.
However, 63 percent of South African teachers in Britain indicated that poor pay had forced them to leave the country, compared to 30 percent of Australians.
"In terms of pay, South African teachers are the most disaffected teachers in the UK. The South African government's accusation that foreign agencies are luring our educators abroad is false. This longitudinal research has proven conclusively that poor pay is a key push factor in the migration of South African teachers to the UK," Mulvaney said.
Recruitment agencies are also not telling teachers of the protocol, which says that teachers cannot be made permanent without first doing a university course in Britain, and that they will be used as stand-in teachers in some of the worst schools in inner-city London.
Under the protocol, the government can limit the number of teachers who leave to work in Britain, they can decide at which point in the year teachers can leave and they can regulate the recruitment agencies, who are often not truthful about the teaching conditions in London.
Mulvaney said teaching in London, where 50 percent of stand-in teachers are South African, is extremely lucrative as teachers are paid between ?120 to ?145 (R1 560 to R2 733) a day.
He added: "There is lots of work for teachers because of shortages in geographical areas, in the tough inner-city schools where English teachers refuse to work."
According to the report, another disturbing trend is repatriation or the brain-gain cycle.
All Australian, New Zealand and Canadian teachers wanted to return home while half of South African teachers indicated a reluctance to return.
Most of the South African teachers were white Afrikaaners and 50 percent of them do not want to return home."
It is regarding a "protocol" which the SA Gov. may introduce to stem the flow of teachers from SA.
However, as an ex-teacher who emigrated from SA to the UK on the grounds of my qualifications, may I say that two fact are not taken into account here:
1. the ANC withdrew many government posts in '95 and this was a major push-factor (despite many governing bodies employing the excluded teachers, the governing body pay package was nowhere near that of previous government contracts)
2. along with many teacher friends, I was employed by a semi-private school in the UK, after a few years supply in Greater London, WITHOUT having to do any university course.
My advice to teachers in SA, go direct to the private schools in the UK, you are more in demand than teachers from anywhere else!
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