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The Democratic Alliance has launched our 2026 Voter Registration campaign today, with the flighting of our voter registration posters. We urge voters to register to get their municipalities working. The reality of local government in our country is simple – where the DA governs, things work. Where there are messy coalitions or other parties governing, things go wrong, services fail, and communities suffer.
This is why our slogan urging voters to register is “Register to get our towns and cities working.”
Already, the DA has assisted hundreds of thousands of voters to correctly register, and we stand ready to assist every South African who wants their municipality to work, to now register to vote.
The DA’s offer to South Africans is simple, based on our track record of governing well:
- If you want our towns and cities to work, you have to vote for it. And the only way you can vote is if you are correctly registered where you live.
- Being correctly registered is how you make sure you have the power to get your water working, your electricity working, your streetlights working, your roads working, your parks cleaned, your refuse collected, and your community kept safe.
- Local government is not some distant debate in Parliament. It determines if the tap in your kitchen works and if the streetlight outside your house works to keep your family safe at night.
- Where the DA governs, municipalities work for their residents. The DA has shown that clean governance, competent administration, proper maintenance, financial discipline, and accountability produce better outcomes for communities.
- But none of that happens automatically. It only happens when people participate. It only happens when citizens use their vote to make government work.
- So this campaign starts with one simple but powerful step: register correctly if you want your town or city to work.
Any eligible voter who is not correctly registered where they live will not be able to vote in what will be the watershed November 2026 local government election. The DA stands ready to take power in more municipalities than ever before and deliver to more South Africans than ever before.