The 1989 South African Voters Roll digitisation project has taken a number of years to come to fruition and is now finally under way. After enquiring to all  the top dogs in government for old database copies, paper copies and even microfiche the answer was “sorry no – all gone”.

Start searching from our front page for your Voting Ancestors.

Luckily I discovered someone that had a microfiche copy but albeit not original fiche. The fiches were sent to a large company that does conversions and the outcome were actually better than envisaged. All though the images are not the right quality to be OCR‘d (Optical Character recognition – in other words converted to editable text) the images were perfect for transcribing.

We started capturing on 28^th August 2012 and over 18000 people out of 5 million have already been done and are ready to search.

There are 2458 pages for the surnames starting with A. There are 21 entries on each page which calculates to 51 618 just for the letter A. At present we have 57 volunteers but would like more to get this project well on its way.

Information given is: Surname, Maiden Name, First Names, ID number (this will not be used) date of birth, occupation, address. This information will be part of the Ancestry24 Premium content and therefore not available to anyone. For privacy reasons ID numbers are not displayed. We have also added the age of the person for ease of those of you who don’t have the time to do the arithmetic, we have done it for you.

Please note that the Voters Roll of South Africa is a public document and can also be perused at the main National Libraries.

If you have and eye for detail, can type proficiently in excel, then you are welcome to join the team of volunteers. Please email either Heather or Andrea

Below is a list of all our other voters lists

Collections in this group:

• 1719 Census Cape Town (780 records)
• 1760 Opgaafrol (1876 records)
• 1857 Burgess Roll of Pietermaritzburg – Free Collection (397 records)
• (44595 records)
• (19021 records)
• 1892 Natal Voters List (154 records)
• 1899 – 1900 Free State Voters List (17065 records)
• 1899 Bethlehem Voters List (957 records)
• (10570 records)
• 1925 Klerksdorp Voters List (2366 records)
• 1925 Krugersdorp Voters List (2624 records)
• 1927 Johannesburg North Voters List (3753 records)
• (3224 records)
• 1927 Klerksdorp Voters List (5107 records)
• 1927 Krugersdorp Voter List (2790 records)
• 1927 Willowmore Voters List (3024 records)
• 1928 Klerksdorp Voters List (532 records)
• 1928 Krugersdorp Voters List (503 records)
• 1929 Johannesburg North Voters List (3153 records)
• 1929 Klerksdorp Voters List (2302 records)
• 1929 Krugersdorp Voters List (2951 records)
• 1930 Johannesburg North Voters List (181 records)
• 1930 Klerksdorp Voters List (221 records)
• 1930 Krugersdorp Voters List (122 records)
• 1931 Johannesburg North Voters Men (3588 records)
• 1931 Johannesburg North Voters Women (3557 records)
• (3419 records)
• 1931 Klerksdorp Voters List (4850 records)
• 1931 Krugersdorp Voters List (6276 records)
• (4413 records)
• 1972 Voters List (562 records)
• (20554 records)
• 1989 Muizenberg Voters Roll (2954 records)
• 1989 South African Voters Roll (3970 records) NEW !!!!
• 1996 Muizenberg Voters Roll (8078 records)
• (1392 records)
• Eastern Cape Steytlerville Voters (146 records)