whether her Department has received a progress report from the IEC in respect of their expenditure for the 2011 local elections up to the latest specified date for which information is available; if not, why not; if so, what are the main findings of this report?
Voter registration is a continuously ongoing process. It includes, among others, people registering at Municipal electoral offices, during normal office hours, and during registration events at, for example, schools and universities. If the Honourable Member is referring to the two special registration weekends held in preparation for the 2011 Local Government Elections, the amount budgeted for these events was R328,510,266.00. It is not, yet, possible to determine the amount which was, actually, spent.
Money was transferred to the IEC, based on the amount appropriated to it by Parliament. The money was transferred in October 2010 and, January 2011. This money was based on the cash-flow projections of the IEC.
No direct progress report has been submitted to the Department, as the IEC is exempted from reporting to the Department, in terms of section 40(1)(e) of the Public Finance Management Act.