In the build-up to the election of the president, the DA had intimated that it would put its own candidate, but it was not to be.
The DA’s attempts will in all likelihood be futile
The president says he is still finalising just how his administration will look like
With his mandate now assured, the president has to balance ANC demands with effective governance
Local markets may enjoy a spell of post-election Ramaphoria, but the president now faces an uphill battle in truly fixing the broken economy
ANC’s Tressurer General Paul Mashatile, former president Thabo Mbeki and President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the media after voting.
Ramaphosa says the election ushers in a period of renewal and hope in which he stands on the shoulders of South Africans to bring change
The leaders of South Africa’s parties saved their best campaigning for their final rallies
Ramaphosa told a packed Ellis Park the ANC would not "surrender our freedom to corruption and state capture."
Ramaphosa says this is a call to all South Africans: black and white, young and old, women and men