Registering to Vote

I registered to vote this morning. The first and only time I have been able to vote up to now has been in the 1994 South African elections that brought in the ANC government and ended white rule; since then I have experienced many elections (in Germany, the Netherlands, the US) but never been able to vote. The date of the election in South Africa has still not been set but will probably be sometime in April.

I walked around to the polling station. Walking by choice in Joburg is one of those activities which marks you out as an eccentric, but there were several other eccentrics out there, with eccentric dogs or eccentric fitness goals. You also get a street-level view of what is going on: here are a couple of young men setting up plasticware for sale on the side of the road.