The ANC deserves praise for winning above 60% of the total votes in the elections, but not for its controversial president, writes Khaya Dlanga.
Numsa will be starting its own workers party as it says South Africa’s working class is disillusioned with the ANC and has been left "leaderless".
Numerous Cosatu leaders will take seats for the ANC in Parliament in what critics are calling their reward for remaining loyal to the ruling party.
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Daggers are being drawn among the ruling party’s Gauteng rebels as old grudges resurface on the back of poor election results.
The election outcome was a call by South Africans for soul-searching and a warning against complacency that the ANC and DA ignore at their peril.
?As post-election euphoria dies down, Milton Nkosi wonders if South Africa’s glass is half-full or half-empty.
An ANC official says money was not misused despite reports that public funds for Madiba’s funeral were paid to suppliers without official approval.
A man in KwaZulu-Natal has been arrested in connection with the election-day murder of Thando Mhlongo. But the motive for her killing is unknown.
The ANC has won this election, even with a compromised leader. But waning support and stronger opposition are problems it will not want to face.
Ruling party member Malusi Gigaba says the ANC would be "ungrateful winners" for questioning how it lost 38% of the votes in this year’s elections.
The Independent Electoral Commission has weathered a storm of criticism to declare the 2014 elections free and fair.
Residents in Alexandra township are concerned that violence might erupt again, following allegations of vote-rigging by the EFF and IFP.
Unfazed by a decline in voters, ANC president Jacob Zuma expressed delight that the majority of South African have returned the party to power.
Preliminary results show the ANC has won the battle for Gauteng with 53.59%, a drop from the 64.04% support it enjoyed in 2009.
Nomvula Mokonyane says the army has moved in Alexandra after protests there over arrested demonstrators turned violent.
Preliminary results indicate the ANC has retained its power by winning the fifth national elections, but with a reduced majority of just over 62%.
The ruling ANC had won the Free State but dropped below 70% of support while the DA is again the official opposition.
While the ANC has firmly established itself in KZN, the country’s official opposition now has its foot in the door.
The DA gained 3.2 percentage points in the Western Cape provincial election – but not at the expense of the ANC.
Despite internal party strife in Nelson Mandela Bay, the ANC crossed the 70% mark in the Eastern Cape, followed by the DA.
The ANC shed five percentage points of its support in Limpopo, but Cope saw its 2009 second-place finish usurped by the EFF in another humiliation.
Despite dropping six percentage points, the ANC has won the provincial vote in the North West, the province in which the Marikana massacre took place.
The killing of Winnie "Nu" Mhlongo on her 30th birthday in Kwadukuza has underscored the province’s political intolerance and its resultant violence.
The relatively unknown AIC, a party with a name and logo "reminiscent" to the ANC, has leapt ahead of Agang SA to gain two seats in Parliament.
The IFP says its supporters held election officials and ANC members hostage after apparently seeing ballot boxes being loaded into a strange car.
The traditional stronghold of the ruling party gave the ANC a 78.33% win, while the DA has come in a distant second with 10.4% of the provincial vote.
The Northern Cape’s votes have been counted, and while the DA and ANC have walked away smiling, Cope has been left humiliated.
Minister Lindiwe Sisulu takes on Ronnie Kasrils and allows us insight into the truth of what it means to be an ANC politician, writes Chris Roper.
A day after the polls, ANC and IEC offices were forced shut after disgruntled IFP supporters allegedly held ANC members hostage there.
Public enterprises minister says government will use the next 20 years to pursue more radical economic programs and help black entrepreneurs.
Early projections show the ruling party will likely keep over 60% of SA’s support. But it won’t get a two-thirds majority in Parliament.