Jacob Zuma will inherit a still-simmering crisis in neighbouring Zimbabwe, where analysts said he’s unlikely to tread as softly as Thabo Mbeki.
ANC president Jacob Zuma’s security detail has been beefed up ahead of his inauguration next week because there were some people who hated him.
Cosatu has asked ANC president Jacob Zuma to add two more of its leaders to his Cabinet to strengthen the left’s influence in government.
The victory in the general elections was not a ”blank cheque” given to the ANC-led alliance to rule for another five years, the SACP said on Friday.
African National Congress (ANC) Youth League president Julius Malema on Friday called Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille ”a racist little girl”.
The ”Stop Zuma” campaign denied the ANC a two-thirds majority in the recent elections, DA leader Helen Zille said on Friday.
The ANC achieved its 50-50 of gender balance when it nominated four women and four men to head the provincial governments it controls.
Five more people have been arrested for the murder of an African National Congress supporter and the attempted murder of six others in KwaZulu-Natal.
The <i> Mail & Guardian</i> learned recently that Jacob Zuma’s administration will expand national ministries from 28 to 32.
Twenty-one heads of state have so far confirmed they will be attending African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma’s inauguration.
The Gauteng African National Congress on Wednesday recommended three people for the position of provincial premier.
Expect structural, policy and management changes to be announced in the next month or two, ANC treasurer general Mathews Phosa said on Wednesday.
The ANC will bring the DA ”to book” for its selective service delivery and treatment of poor people in the Western Cape, the party said on Wednesday.
The ANC played no part in the decision to end the contract of SABC news head Snuki Zikalala, the ruling party’s treasurer general Mathews Phosa said.
Investors will be looking to the composition of SA’s new Cabinet as a clue to the future policy direction, financial services group Nomura says.
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.
Party leaders gathered with IEC officials and the media at the results centre on Saturday afternoon in Pretoria where the results were announced.
The ANC was happy with its performance in the election despite missing a two-thirds majority by a whisker, the party said on Saturday.
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.
Jacob Zuma’s election victory has been welcomed by ministers in Zimbabwe as intensifying pressure on President Robert Mugabe.
The rand slipped against the dollar on Friday as some investors worried about the size of the ruling ANC’s huge election majority.
Why did the Congress of the People fare so badly? This was the central question which emerged from South Africa’s fourth democratic election.
When it announced that about 50 ANC MPs would cross to Cope, the ANC went into panic mode.
Hundreds of African National Congress supporters braved a wintry Johannesburg on Thursday night to celebrate the party’s victory.
It was an easy win for the ANC. But what quickly emerged was that a shift had occurred in the South African political landscape.
Patricia de Lille takes a seat, far away from the other political parties, watching as the overseas voter results appear on the screen at the IEC.
The number of votes coming into the IEC’s national results centre picked up from a trickle to more substantial numbers by Thursday afternoon.
The ANC’s lead in the national election took a 0,13% dip over lunchtime on Thursday as more results from Gauteng polling stations became available.
The ANC was leading the race in eight of the nine provinces late on Thursday morning while the ruling party has also increased its lead over the DA.
Many deserted the IFP, some changed their votes to Cope, and others just kept on voting for SA’s liberation movement, the ANC.
DA leader Helen Zille told the Mail & Guardian Online on Thursday that the party is ”not very happy” about the election results.
With three million votes counted, the ANC is cruising to another convincing victory in South Africa’s fourth democratic election.