An electronic screen shows the final results of seat allocation in the National Assembly in South Africa's 2024 general elections in Midrand, South Africa, June 2, 2024. South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has secured 159 out of 400 seats in the National Assembly in the co...
South Africa, on June 1, 2024. South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has secured about 40 percent of votes with over 99 percent of ballot counting completed in the country's general elections, the Independent Electoral Commission's (IEC) results showed on ...
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.
South African electoral trends: prospects for coalition governance at national and provincial spheres in 2024The 2021 local government elections (LGE) in the Republic of South Africa once again delivered hung metropolitan municipalities a phenomenon that became common following the 2016 LGE results. The...
Jun 1, 2024 Mandela's party could lose majority The first results in South Africa's national election are signaling a major change to the country with the ruling African National Congress, Nelson Mandela's former party, on course to lose the majority it's held for 30 years. BBC News Afric...
Following the national elections on May 29, 2024, the African National Congress, in power since 1994, received only 40.2% of votes.1Thus, unable to secure a parliamentary majority, it formed a coalition government with the centrist and pro-market Democratic Alliance—its main opposition—as well...
JOHANNESBURG/CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The African National Congress faced its toughest electoral test on Wednesday as it sought to reverse a slide in support from voters frustrated by graft and racial inequalities a generation after it won power in South Af
The GNU is founded primarily upon a partnership between two longstanding political rivals — the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) — that now find themselves the two main partners in government. Already, the differences between these parties have been evident — nota...
Staff members of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) talk at the National Results Operations Center in Midrand, South Africa, on May 31, 2024. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) is currently leading in South Africa's 2024 national and provincial elections, with about 42 percent of...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, also the leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), delivers a speech after a meeting of the ANC's National Executive Committee in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 6, 2024. South Africa's ANC said Wednesday that it has started engagements with...