South African Parties OK New Constitution Approval by White Parliament Is ExpectedAfter a frantic day of bargaining, the government and the African National Congress put the final touches Wednesday on a constitution that gives blacks equal rights with whites for the first time....
JOHANNESBURG, June 5 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) said Wednesday that it has started engagements with major political parties in the country to form a national unity government after losing an outright majority of seats in the National Assembly in the just-c...
South African parties agree to form first-ever coalition government South Africa is to have its first coalition government in the wake of an election that saw the late Nelson Mandela's party lose its majority. Jun 14, 2024 South Africa's Ramaphosa calls for unity ...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said his party will invite others to join a national unity government. His African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority inlast week's electionand for the first time since the end of apartheid cannot govern alone. The party will have 159 of ...
The South African government is saddled with a staggering 48.2 billion rand (4.16 billion dollars) revenue gap, and many economists say the minister's increasing of VAT was unavoidable. The finance minister said the VAT hike was part of government efforts to cut deficit and stabilize debt under...
The Gauteng government has concluded its investigation into the nearly R600 million irregularly spent on refurbishing a private hospital. In 2022—during the peak of the…Read More » Damaged Goma Runway Delays Repatriation of Fallen South African Soldiers, Says Defence Minister ...
Do Parties Hold Politicians Accountable (and for What)? Evidence from South African Local Government ElectionsDemocracyaccountabilityservice provisionpolitical partiesSouthern AfricaIn this paper, we examine the extent to which political parties in a strong-party system hold individual politicians to account...
South African courts generally accept that there is somethingdifferent about government contracts some of the time, there has been atendency to fixate on the bright-line divide between public and private law tojustify subjecting the state to either different or the same treatment as privateparties....
Ramaphosa, 71, stressed that the government of national unity, which a number of parties have come together to agree on, is "not a grand coalition of two or three parties." "We are here now as directed by the votes that our people delivered, to work together to ensure that we address...
CAPE TOWN, June 13 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) looks forward to the establishment of a government of national unity, said the party's Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula on Thursday. Mbalula made the remarks on the eve of the first sitting of the Nationa...