It's true: women are better than men - at least when it comes to voting in SA

More worrying, said Berkowitz, are trends showing that the voter turnout in 2019 would be less than that in the previous general elections in 2014.

In the 2014 general elections, 34.5-million South Africans were eligible to vote. Only 74% of them registered to vote, while only 54% ended up voting. Berkowitz said this is likely to be worse come May 8, with 37.8-million citizens being of voting age in 2019 but only 71% registered to vote - with scientific estimates putting the number of people who may turn up to vote at 51% or less.

"We might end up with fewer people voting next month than we had five years ago. You can already see the drop with 3.3-million more eligible voters but we only have 1.4-million people more that are registered to vote than there were five years ago," he said.Most of the eligible voters who ended up not voting were the youth, aged between 18 and their late 20s, while older citizens over the age of 35 who registered usually did end up voting.

''Here is what is interesting: women are better voters than men,' said Berkowitz.' Without additional analysis, your statistics ('About 52% of the pop is women, 55% of registered voters are women and 57% of the people that end up voting') don't necessarily prove your hypothesis

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