IEC registration workers still not paid

This week’s announcement by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) of a supplementary voter registration has been received with indignation by the affected temporary workers. The IEC announced that the supplementary voter registration will commence from February 26 until March 15.

The initial 30-day voter registration exercise, which ran from January 5 to February 3, temporarily engaged 2,808 unemployed individuals throughout the country. An unemployed ex-voter registrar, who preferred anonymity for fear of even more delayed payment and possible exclusion from any future engagement by the IEC, complained bitterly of the Commission’s lack of empathy.