Hallo Saul The new Electoral Act (act 73 of 1998) determines that the Voters Roll may only be used for election purposes and declares it an offence to use the Voters Roll for any other purpose. Voters Roll for the period prior to 1998 can be found in various repositories. The most useful of these, because they are indexed alphabetically for the whole country, are the 1972 Voters Roll and the 1984 Voters Roll, The 1972 Voters Roll is available in printed form in the Pretoria Archives and the 1984 Voters Roll is available in Microfiche format in the library of the LDS in Parktown and also , I believe, in the library of GISA in Stellenbosch. The 1984 Voters Roll is currently being transcribed by GSSA and we have completed 2,5 million on the just more than 3 million names - we however are progressing at a rate of about 20,000 names per month and desperately need more volunteers to wrap up the last 500,000 names. If there are any volunteers amongst the listers, please contact me off-list at dennispretorius "at" mweb.co,za Dennis Pretorius Krugersdorp South Africa Tel - 011-762-8911 Cel - 083-679-8541 Fax - 086-609-8541 -----Original Message----- From: south-africa-eastern-cape-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:south-africa-eastern-cape-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Saul Issroff via Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 11:17 AM To: SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE@rootsweb.com Subject: [ZA-EC] voters rolls What happens to Electoral Registers (municipal, previous provincial and general) after elections? Are they destroyed? If not where are these held and are the registers accessible to researchers? Saul Issroff

Many thanks. what about prior to 1972? Saul On 16 August 2015 at 10:36, Dennis Pretorius <dennispretorius@mweb.co.za> wrote: > Hallo Saul > > The new Electoral Act (act 73 of 1998) determines that the Voters Roll may > only be used for election purposes and declares it an offence to use the > Voters Roll for any other purpose. > > Voters Roll for the period prior to 1998 can be found in various > repositories. > > The most useful of these, because they are indexed alphabetically for the > whole country, are the 1972 Voters Roll and the 1984 Voters Roll, The 1972 > Voters Roll is available in printed form in the Pretoria Archives and the > 1984 Voters Roll is available in Microfiche format in the library of the > LDS > in Parktown and also , I believe, in the library of GISA in Stellenbosch. > > The 1984 Voters Roll is currently being transcribed by GSSA and we have > completed 2,5 million on the just more than 3 million names - we however > are > progressing at a rate of about 20,000 names per month and desperately need > more volunteers to wrap up the last 500,000 names. > > If there are any volunteers amongst the listers, please contact me off-list > at dennispretorius "at" mweb.co,za > > Dennis Pretorius > Krugersdorp South Africa > Tel - 011-762-8911 > Cel - 083-679-8541 > Fax - 086-609-8541 > > -----Original Message----- > From: south-africa-eastern-cape-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:south-africa-eastern-cape-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Saul > Issroff via > Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 11:17 AM > To: SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ZA-EC] voters rolls > > What happens to Electoral Registers (municipal, previous provincial and > general) after elections? Are they destroyed? > If not where are these held and are the registers accessible to > researchers? > > Saul Issroff > > > -- Regards Saul