President of the African National Congress (ANC) Cyril Ramaphosa (C) gestures after he was announced president after members of parliament voted during the first sitting of the New South African Parliament in Cape Town on June 14, 2024. Wikus De Wet | Afp | Getty Images The African National...
420,161 votes at 21.70 percent, while the newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party was in third position with 2,312,947 votes at 14.68 percent. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), which is currently the third biggest party in the parliament, came in fourth with 1,491,237 ...
In the end, no party won an outright majority in the National Assembly. The ANC got less than 200 seats it needed to maintain its 30-year-old unchallenged dominance in the lower house of parliament. While announcing the final results, IEC Chairperson Mosotho Moepya declared the 2024 general ...
The former President has been expelled from the ANC - the party he once led - after campaigning for a rival party in the 2024 election The African National Congress’s (ANC) move to pin the blame for its worst results in three decades on ex-PresidentJacob Zumarisks whitewashing the failure...
Zuma's term doesn't officially end until 2019 when national elections will be held but he could be removed early through a motion of no confidence in parliament or at meeting of the ANC's national executive committee (NEC). The NEC will meet this week. Zuma himse...
Former ANC Women's Leaque President Bathabile Dlamini, who has been convicted of perjury, is also on the list. The list also include some of the party’s members of parliament who are in trouble after voting in favour of the adoption of section 89 report on the Phala Phala farm saga in...
The first sitting of the National Assembly, lower house of parliament, is being held on Friday to elect the speaker, deputy speaker and president for the next five years. This follows the country's 2024 general elections on May 29 where members of the national and provincial legislatures were...