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Proof: The ‘No Vote’ party: Why most South Africans might opt out

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-05T19:41:18Z","headline":"The ‘No Vote’ party: Why most South Africans might opt out","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"dailymaverick","url":"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-10-05-political-disillusionment/","v":1}

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SHA-256

45b39343606fb69328960ecc781ac036a301d581c6fe852795fffb9609e76a62

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970074, mined 2026-10-05 20:11 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 19:42 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-05 19:43 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-45b39343606f.json prints 45b39343606fb69328960ecc781ac036a301d581c6fe852795fffb9609e76a62. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-45b39343606f.json and headline-45b39343606f.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-45b39343606f.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.