The implication here is that older people has slightly more access to and possibly a greater need for cars to get to their voting stations. Few voters used any other means of transport. Only the use of buses by three per cent of the 18 to 22 year old category being worth mentioning. However, the results reported in Table 9 suggest that this age differential is not entirely borne out by the statistics on time taken to reach voting stations. Clearly, age was not the only factor that affected ease of access to voting stations.
Further analysis is thus necessary to determine the reason for an apparent anomaly.
Pertinent here were the differences between metropolitan, urban, informal and rural areas. It could be expected that rural voters would on average be living further away from their voting stations than their urban and metropolitan counterparts. The survey statistics reported in Figure 11 confirm this where it is shown that 86 per cent of metropolitan and urban-based voters were able to get to their voting stations within less than half an hour. In contrast, only 72 per cent of rural voters and 69 per cent of those living in areas under tribal jurisdiction were able to get to their voting stations in under 30 minutes. 9.3 Access by race Given the historical inequities in South Africa it might also be anticipated that access to voting stations in terms of time taken to reach them and means of transport available, would also be determined by differences in race.