On 28 May 2024, MarComms asked 34 students if they were going to vote the following day, and how they felt about exercising their right to vote to elect the seventh democratically elected administration. Twenty-eight of these students said they were going to vote for the first time. Six of these students were going to vote for the second time. Fourteen of these students said they were ‘happy’ that they were going to vote; one said because they were going to be part of a process that elects the president; one said now they were going to be part of the South African citizenry. One had mixed feelings about getting a chance to vote. Two said they were not happy; one second voter said it is because there would be no change; a first-time voter said they did not “really care because their vote would not count anyway”. Three students said they were just voting because they had to. Three said they were voting to make a difference. Four said they were not decided about how they were feeling about the fact that they were going to vote. It was quite heartening to get the different views from the youth who, as the current generation should vote to enrich the democracy that was hard won some thirty years ago.