Western Cape IEC Commissioner Courtney Sampson bids farewell after 22 years

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After 22-years of service as the Western Cape Provincial Chairperson for the Independent Electoral Commission, Reverend Courtney Sampson has called it a day.

The father of two and grandfather to a grandson turning two-years-old on Monday, Sampson says he is looking forward to spending his golden years on his first loves – the church and rebuilding cricket in the Boland.

“I got a note that I was appointed to start on April 1, 1999, and I thought it was an April Fool’s joke because the next election was on June 2, 1999. I was 38-years-old when I voted for the first time and I’d never voted before and knew nothing about elections,” he laughs. “We had high levels of drive in 1999, we had just been through 1994, we were just five years into this thing, so it was national service for me, it was your country calling you to work. We had come from the dark years of apartheid and we were not going to go back and we wanted something decent that everyone could be proud of.

“At one stage, I went out and asked the then-mayor, Nomaindia Mfeketo and took to the worst places in Khayelitsha and told them how we would have to manage an election there and showed them the filth in the area where we would have to put up a tent. Then there would be rushing around to clean up that area and that was the cooperation we had, we don’t have that anymore, it has worsened significantly.

 

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