The DA, the largest opposition party, has said it won't join a formation with the EFF or former President Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party, w...

The ANC's potential partners are diametrically opposed, ranging from the free-marketeer Democratic Alliance (DA) to uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and the Eco...

The result means that the ANC must now share power, likely with a major political rival, in order to keep it - an unprecedented prospect in South Afri...

The ANC has lost its outright majority in parliament for the first time since it came to power after apartheid. In the previous election in 2019, the...

The party's poor showing has fuelled speculation that Ramaphosa's days might be numbered, either due to the demands of a prospective coalition partner...

The ANC has won every previous national election since the historic 1994 vote that ended white minority rule, but over the last decade, its support ha...

The country has yet to produce a female president—something the upcoming general elections are unlikely to change.

The economy has been slumbering for several years, battered by a prolonged energy crisis resulting in daily power blackouts.

For the first time in South Africa's democratic era, the African National Congress (ANC) will have to seek one or more coalition partners to govern wi...