NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION 2851
DATE OF PUBLICATION: Friday, 25 October 2013
INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO 35 of 2013
Mr M Mnqasela (DA) to ask the Minister of Home Affairs:
Whether her Department maintains a database of areas where large
concentrations of South African citizens reside outside the country for
voting planning purposes; if so, (a) where are these areas and (b) what
criteria are used to identify them as such?
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REPLY:
The question was referred to the Electoral Commission and it advised as
follows:
(a) & (b) The Electoral Commission does not maintain a database of
areas where large concentrations of South African citizens
reside outside the country as this does not form part of its
legal mandate.