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The dubious profiling of Rwanda has been a common feature of Western reporting on Africa for the past 60 years.
The ANC still has to work out how to divide up the top cabinet jobs and overcome ideological differences with its new partners.
Former president Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto we Sizwe party came in a surprisingly strong third in the May 29 election, which saw the ANC lose its majority.
Once unthinkable, the accord allowed President Cyril Ramaphosa to win a second term in office. He was re-elected by lawmakers with 283 votes.
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 remains the biggest party, but the lack of an outright majority means it must now share power, and President Cyril Ramaphosa says its leaders...
The electoral math has created a complex situation for the ANC, which will have 159 of the 400 seats in the new National Assembly.
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 party and country will now have to enter a period of coalition building unprecedented in the democratic era, with potential partners ranging from...
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...
If the party loses its majority, some political analysts say 71-year-old Ramaphosa will be unlikely to see out a second term.
With results from 11.3 per cent of polling stations, the ANC's share of the vote in Wednesday's election stood at 42.8 per cent, with the pro-business...
Opinion polls suggest the African National Congress (ANC) will lose its parliamentary majority after 30 years in government.
South Africa’s seventh general election since democracy in 1994, set for May 29, 2024, takes place under circumstances different from any other electi...
Malema's pledge to redress persistent racial and economic disparities resonates with his constituents.
The former Kenyan head of state has been hailed for his sustained, principled, impartial, inclusive, and discreet efforts to broker peace and negotiat...
Zuma, who was forced to quit as president in 2018, has fallen out with the governing African National Congress (ANC) and has been campaigning for a ne...
