- 28 Apr 2009 08:43 -
- Where the English have football, South Africans have politics. This occurred to me as I stood near the stadium where SA will host the World Cup final.
- 27 Apr 2009 06:47 - Staff Reporter
- DA leader Helen Zille will step down as Cape Town mayor on Wednesday when she's gazetted as a member of the Western Cape provincial legislature.
- 26 Apr 2009 10:35 - Staff Reporter
- Elizma is a born free. As old as SA's 15-year-old democracy, she will never carry a pass, be denied the vote or forced to use a separate to toilet.
- 26 Apr 2009 09:22 - Staff Reporter
- Finance Minister Trevor Manuel is likely to be moved to a powerful new body to oversee government performance when Jacob Zuma takes office.
- 25 Apr 2009 19:33 - Mandy Rossouw
- Party leaders gathered with IEC officials and the media at the results centre on Saturday afternoon in Pretoria where the results were announced.
- 25 Apr 2009 18:04 - Staff Reporter
- In the final tally, the African National Congress dominates the National Assembly but misses its two-thirds majority by an inch.
- 25 Apr 2009 13:18 - Staff Reporter
- The ANC was happy with its performance in the election despite missing a two-thirds majority by a whisker, the party said on Saturday.
- 25 Apr 2009 07:48 - Phumza Macanda
- The ANC is set to fall just short of the two-thirds of votes needed to ensure a parliamentary majority sufficient to make sweeping changes.
- 25 Apr 2009 07:13 - Staff Reporter
- Jacob Zuma's election victory has been welcomed by ministers in Zimbabwe as intensifying pressure on President Robert Mugabe.
- 27 Apr 2009 06:00 - Staff Reporter
- Before the 2004 elections the Mail & Guardian visited the Mayixhale family in a village outside Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape.
- 27 Apr 2009 06:00 - Richard Calland
- He may not be a bad man; and his government may do good things. But the long-term impact is as simple as it is severe.
- 24 Apr 2009 16:40 - Staff Reporter
- A visit by Zanele Mbeki caused a flurry of activity on the floor of the Independent Electoral Commission centre in Pretoria on Friday afternoon.
- 24 Apr 2009 15:47 - Staff Reporter
- As the excitement of South Africa's election fades to a memory, newly elected MPs will focus their attention on taking up their seats in Parliament.
- 24 Apr 2009 16:23 - Staff Reporter
- The DA has laid charges against five North West policemen who allegedly intimidated the DA's deputy chairperson in the North West.
- 26 Apr 2009 06:00 - Staff Reporter
- Mandy Rossouw and Mmanaledi Mataboge look at the reasons for two parties losing support.
- 25 Apr 2009 06:00 - Qudsiya Karrim
- Nope is not a political party or a cult. It's not an organisation and it has no founder.
- 25 Apr 2009 06:00 - Pearlie Joubert
- Pearlie Joubert accompanies Selina Bezuidenhout, one of our Mzansi voters, to the polls.
- 26 Apr 2009 06:00 - Niren Tolsi
- Nkandla: already thankful, but also expectant that the ANC's promise of a "better life for all" will resonate through these hills and valleys.
- 26 Apr 2009 06:00 - Percy Mabandu
- For the first time, blind South Africans have voted in secret, thanks to a new Braille ballot template.
- 25 Apr 2009 06:00 -
- Zuma tapped into the mood of the poor black majority, but they too will turn against him if he fails to deliver.
