Afrobarometer

to everybody.

But the fortunate thing is, if you look at the World Value Survey, if you look at Afrobarometer, it says, if you look at socially conservative, not as a political concept, but as a social concept, more than 80% of South Africans believe in issues such as respect for the elderly, feeling a sense of belonging in a community, being against lawlessness, being for mutual recognition and respect.

And that is why less than 10% people, and they are going to diminish further, would vote, very few would vote for the EFF.

It's simply because that kind of view and that kind of style... does not resonate with the majority of people.

But we've actually done very little work in South Africa.

In fact, 79% of the respondents in the last Afrobarometer and Human Science Research Council surveys show that 79% of South Africans say that they've never actually really received civic education, which is broader than simply voter education, where voter education is really telling people, this is how you vote, this is when you vote.

Civic education gives you the political understanding of the entire system.

Why do we have a flag, for example? How does the Minister of Finance create the budget? If somebody came to you and said to all of your people in your ward, we're going to give you all a job if you vote for me, how would you be able to understand that that was disinformation and how would you know that? And so we really take it really from the very, very most simple, you know, points of political education all the way to incredibly complex, you know, knowledge such as, you know, how is the budget speech put together? What happens in Parliament? What is your parliamentarian supposed to be doing? how is a bill made how do you track a ball so we're really trying to make sure that we are not having another generation of south africans who simply vote on vibes uh or are just given political information from their political parties or the ic we want to make sure that people are well informed that they are registered so that by the time they leave school they actually understand what's at stake and how to go about it and Most importantly, what they can do in between elections without having to always think about, oh, I must vote once every five years and that's my entire contribution as a citizen.

But we've actually done very little work in South Africa.

In fact, 79% of the respondents in the last Afrobarometer and Human Science Research Council surveys show that 79% of South Africans say that they've never actually really received civic education, which is broader than simply voter education, where voter education is really telling people, this is how you vote, this is when you vote.

Civic education gives you the political understanding of the entire system.

Why do we have a flag, for example? How does the Minister of Finance create the budget? If somebody came to you and said to all of your people in your ward, we're going to give you all a job if you vote for me, how would you be able to understand that that was disinformation and how would you know that? And so we really take it really from the very, very most simple, you know, points of political education all the way to incredibly complex, you know, knowledge such as, you know, how is the budget speech put together? What happens in Parliament? What is your parliamentarian supposed to be doing? how is a bill made how do you track a ball so we're really trying to make sure that we are not having another generation of south africans who simply vote on vibes uh or are just given political information from their political parties or the ic we want to make sure that people are well informed that they are registered so that by the time they leave school they actually understand what's at stake and how to go about it and Most importantly, what they can do in between elections without having to always think about, oh, I must vote once every five years and that's my entire contribution as a citizen.