Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker.
Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy.
Speak your mind and fear the stigma of conformity.
***And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost***
~ Thomas J Watson (1874-1956)
2.9 million registration transactions is noted. But the numbers tell a bigger story. Across 9 provinces, more than 13.5 million eligible South Africans remain unregistered. And for those who registered this weekend and those already on the roll, the critical question remains: will they actually show up on 4 November? Because a registered voter who stays home is still a missing voter. The portal is still open. The real question now is whether political parties have the data, the ground operations and the voter mobilisation tools to convert registration into turnout. #MissingVoter #LGE2026
Political campaigns know where voters are, what they consume, and how they behave but still struggle with why they trust less, disengage, and why information doesn’t land.
That’s the gap between data and belief.
At #IPE27, reclaiming the #MissingVoter means closing that gap.
The future belongs to political parties that know their voters better than their opponents do. If you are serious about maximising your chances of victory, it is time to move beyond instinct and embrace evidence-based #PoliticalCampaigns.
@ResourceHub_HQ has the tools you need.
Political parties know that party primaries can be chaotic, but they still keep unreliable membership lists.
Some lists are so unreliable that even a dog in Canada was once successfully registered as a party member.
@ResourceHub_HQ helps parties organise, update, verify members
Introducing the PCRH Party Membership Database Tool.
Built for political parties who want to know their members, not just count them.
From cell to national level, manage your structures, track engagement, and keep your data clean, organised and ready to mobilise when it matters most.
No more spreadsheets. No more scattered WhatsApp lists. Just one system that gives your party real visibility into its own base.
Book a demo today https://t.co/Kuk0iKqh1b
#PoliticalCampaigns #PartyDatabase #PCRH #VoterMobilisation
Introducing the PCRH Party Membership Database Tool.
Built for political parties who want to know their members, not just count them.
From cell to national level, manage your structures, track engagement, and keep your data clean, organised and ready to mobilise when it matters most.
No more spreadsheets. No more scattered WhatsApp lists. Just one system that gives your party real visibility into its own base.
Book a demo today https://t.co/Kuk0iKqh1b
#PoliticalCampaigns #PartyDatabase #PCRH #VoterMobilisation
From live monitoring on election day to post‑campaign audits and crisis control, the War Room gives parties and politicians a decisive, organised response when it matters most. Shikamo sets up and runs the command centre, so you stay in control. #WarRoomExecution#Shikamo
1. Why is voting no longer attractive to so many people?
2. Why are millions of registered voters choosing not to cast a ballot?
3. Why are growing numbers of eligible citizens refusing to register in the first place?
#IPE27#IPE2027#Elections#PoliticalCampaigns
"In 2024 alone, more than 4 billion people were eligible to vote across over 70 national elections, making it the largest electoral year in human history. Yet voter turnout continues to decline in many democracies, while millions of eligible citizens never even register to vote."
In The Gambia, votes are cast with marbles, not paper. But the strategy behind winning them is the same as anywhere: organisation, mobilisation, and learning faster than your opponents.
This week: announcing our participants from The Gambia 🇬
Joining the UCT-PCRH Executive Short Course on How to Run and Manage a Winning Political Campaign from @UniteMovementFC Party: @kemo_bojang Bojang (Deputy Party Leader, Political Affairs & Media Relations) and Yahya Sonko (National Campaign Manager & Deputy Party Leader, Campaign and Mobilisation).
28 Sept – 02 Oct 2026 | University of Cape Town
Visit https://t.co/Kuk0iKqh1b for more
#PoliticalCampaigns #UCT #PCRH #TheGambia #SmilingCoast
Over 1 million eligible voters in Mpumalanga aren’t registered.
Who is responsible for that missing million? #MissingVoter
This is the question #IPE27 is convened to answer.
Save the date: 5–6 August 2027 | South Africa
#MissingVoter#PoliticalCampaigns#LGE2026#PCRH
In Mpumalanga, over 1 million eligible voters aren't registered.
But let's ask a different question today.
Who is responsible for that?
Not the IEC. They've done their job, they've published the numbers, opened registration, run the campaigns.
The responsibility sits with political parties. And most of them don't even know how many of their own potential supporters are in that missing million.
That is the crisis #IPE27 was built to address.
Not just the numbers. But the culture of campaigning that allows parties to go into every election cycle without ever truly accounting for the voters they left behind.
@IPE_Official_ IPE27 is a global gathering of campaign practitioners convened by the Political Campaigns Resource Hub (PCRH), asking the questions the industry has been avoiding.
Save the date: 5–6 August 2027 | South Africa
#IPE27 #MissingVoter #PoliticalCampaigns #Mpumalanga #LGE2026 #PCRH
#PoliticalCampaigns still treat trust as something you “earn” at the end of a cycle. Trust isn’t an outcome of campaigns, it is the environment they operate in.
At #IPE27 we confront how reclaiming the #MissingVoter starts with rebuilding trust.
Save the date: 5-6 August 2027
Primary elections across multiple levels. Multiple committees. Tight deadlines. Thousands of results to collect, verify and report.
This is one of the most complex logistical moments in any party’s electoral calendar.
The Political Campaigns Resource Hub (PCRH) Results Management Tool is built for exactly this.
It gives political parties the infrastructure to:
✅ Capture results digitally in real time from every committee
✅ Track submissions and flag missing or late reports instantly
✅ Verify and reconcile results across all levels
✅ Store a clean, auditable record of every result and report
From governorship to state assembly , every result matters. Every deadline counts.
The parties that manage their internal processes with precision are the ones that show up to the general election ready.
Book a demo 👉 https://t.co/Kuk0iKqh1b
#PoliticalCampaigns #ResultsManagement #ElectionResults #NigerianPolitics #PCRH #IPE27
Voter registration is open across South Africa.
But before parties rush to mobilise have they asked themselves the harder question first?
Why did over 330,000 eligible voters not register last time? What did your party do or not do that left them out? Did you reach them? Did you have their data? Did you have a ground game in their areas? Or did you only notice they were missing when the results came in?
Because if parties haven’t done the post-mortem on the last election, registration weekend 2026 will produce the same result.
The #MissingVoter doesn’t disappear on its own. They stay missing until a party builds the infrastructure to find them.
Our Voter Mobilisation Tool exists so that parties go into every registration period knowing exactly who their unregistered supporters are and a plan to reach them.
Don’t repeat the same campaign. Fix it.
Book a demo 👉 https://t.co/Kuk0iKqh1b
Save the date: 5–6 August 2027 | South Africa
#IPE27 #MissingVoter #VoterMobilisation #PoliticalCampaigns #NorthernCape #LGE2026 #PCRH @Siphiwehenryy
Every strong political party is built from the bottom up.
From the cell. The branch. The ward. The constituency.
Grassroots structures are where parties mobilise, organise and maintain their connection with the people. But too many parties are still managing this with spreadsheets, paper lists and WhatsApp groups.
That’s not a database. That’s a risk.
The Political Campaigns Resource Hub (PCRH) Party Database Tool gives your party the infrastructure to:
✅ Build and manage a structured member database from grassroots to national level
✅ Track membership activity and engagement across all structures
✅ Digitise your grassroots data so no member is invisible to the party
✅ Mobilise efficiently and at scale when it matters most
A party that knows its members at every level is a party that wins.
Book a demo today at https://t.co/Kuk0iKqh1b
#PoliticalCampaigns #PartyDatabase #GrassrootsPolitics #VoterMobilisation #PCRH
Winning political campaigns are built, not improvised.
We are proud to welcome senior party officials from Lesotho’s governing party, the Revolution for Prosperity Party (RFP) @RevolutionforP1 , to our upcoming Executive Short Course on How to Run & Manage a Winning Political Campaign, co-hosted by the University of Cape Town @UCT_news .
🔹 Booi Mohapi (CEO)
🔹 Nthati Moorosi (Secretary General)
The work of winning political campaigns starts here.
📍 UCT | Sept 28 – Oct 2, 2026
Visit https://t.co/Kuk0iKqh1b for more
KwaZulu-Natal. One of the most hotly contested provinces in South Africa.
Yet more than 2 million eligible voters aren’t registered. And millions more who are registered won’t vote.
This is the #MissingVoter and in a province where elections are decided on razor-thin margins, those missing voters could change everything.
The biggest challenge in politics today isn’t persuasion, it’s participation.
This is precisely why the Political Campaigns Resource Hub (PCRH) is convening @IPE_Official_ #IPE27 , a global platform for campaign practitioners to confront the missing voter crisis and rethink how we campaign.
Because if you’re not fighting for every eligible voter in KZN, you’re already losing.
Save the date: 5–6 August 2027 | South Africa
#IPE27 #MissingVoter #PoliticalCampaigns #KZN #SouthAfrica #LGE2026
Gauteng. South Africa’s most populous province. Its economic engine. Its most fiercely contested political battleground.
Yet more than 4.5 million eligible voters aren’t registered to vote.
Here’s the question every political party operating in Gauteng must answer: how many of those 4.5 million are YOUR voters?
Because if you don’t know, you don’t have a campaign. You have a guess.
At the Political Campaigns Resource Hub (PCRH), we built the Voter Mobilisation Tool for exactly this. It allows your party to:
✅ Identify who your voters are
✅ Track who is registered and who isn’t
✅ Build a plan to get them registered
✅ Ensure they show up on election day
Gauteng won’t be won by the party with the best message. It will be won by the party that finds, registers and mobilises every last one of their voters.
The #MissingVoter is your opportunity, if you have the right tools.
Book a demo today with us https://t.co/Kuk0iKqh1b
#MissingVoter #VoterMobilisation #PoliticalCampaigns #Gauteng #LGE2026 #PCRH