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The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), in collaboration with the national Department of Education (DoE), has embarked upon a national campaign to educate learners to take up their right and their responsibility to register and vote as citizens of a democratic country by participating in the elections.
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The IEC will be conducting training sessions with the Curriculum Advisers (Life Orientation) and Life Orientation teachers during weekends and after school during the first term of 2009.
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The IEC fieldworkers will deliver posters and pamphlets to all high schools with information regarding the Voter Education Campaign for Elections 2009.
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All teachers are requested to encourage learners to obtain their Identity Document (ID) as soon as possible and to register as voters during the last weekend of registration, which is 7 and 8 February 2009. In order to register, the learner must be a South African citizen; must be 16 years or older (but can vote only if 18 years and older); must be in possession of a South African green bar-coded ID or Temporary Identity Certificate; and, must provide a physical address where he or she is ordinarily resident.
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For more information on this campaign, please contact Ms D Christiaans, Senior Curriculum Planner (FET Life Orientation) at 021 467 2589.
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Principals are requested to bring the contents of this minute to the attention of all Life Orientation teachers.
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SIGNED: SM NAICKER
HEAD: EDUCATION
DATE: 2009:02:02
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