South Africa's democratic elections have produced highly stable and predictable outcomes, largely as a result of the slow pace of change in partisanship. However, a sudden decline in partisanship in the years before the 2019 General Elections was likely to have obvious and predictable effects on ...
The electoral commission has seven days from the date of the elections to announce the results. After that, the new National Assembly will select the president of South Africa for the next five years by a simple majority. Ahead of the polls, the IEC said it would officially announce the fin...
This chapter tracks 25 years of democracy, starting with Mandela’s election to president in 1994 and ending with Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency in 2019. Along the way, South Africa suffering an AIDS pandemic, a large-scale influence operation by a British PR firm, state capture by a mega-ric...
Last week, the government raised the VAT for the first time in 25 years, ahead of elections in 2019. Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba announced a 1 percentage point increase in VAT, from 14 percent to 15 percent. The VAT hike and a plethora of other tax proposals were meant to generate an...
"The projected recovery reflects modestly reduced but continued policy uncertainty in the South African economy after the May 2019 elections," the IMF said. "Structural reforms, particularly to product and labor markets, would foster an environment conducive to expanding private investment, job creation...
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South Africa’s election will determine how weary the country has become of the ruling African National Congress party, which has been in power since the end of apartheid 30 years ago.
JOHANNESBURG, May 20 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's Constitutional Court, the country's highest court, ruled on Monday that former president Jacob Zuma is not eligible to run for parliament in the upcoming elections. The court's judgement came following the Independent Electoral Commission's appeal ...
Leader of South Africa's main opposition party Democratic Alliance (DA) John Steenhuisen (C) greets supporters during an election rally in Benoni of Gauteng, South Africa, May 26, 2024. South Africa is scheduled to hold national and local government elections on May 29. (Xinhua/Zhang Yudong...
Standard Bank economist Elna Moolman was cautious ahead of the budget. Moolman told Xinhua on Wednesday that VAT was a positive idea but the increase "would not be taken lightly by the poor ahead of the elections in 2019." "We have not adjusted VAT since 1993, and it is low compared ...