The presidency has announced that Jacob Zuma has been sent home from hospital to rest for a few days following a gruelling election campaign.
The president has been released from hospital after a small health scare. But he can ill afford to rest after years of watching his back.
Gauteng’s ANC Youth League has announced it will march to the M&G for being a "willing propagandist of a counter-revolution against the ANC".
The DA leader says reports that she said she "made" Lindiwe Mazibuko were distorted and leaked from a party meeting with an agenda.
The final legislature lists released on Friday revealed an interesting dynamic when it came to gender and the ANC’s choices for premiers.
The ANC deserves praise for winning above 60% of the total votes in the elections, but not for its controversial president, writes Khaya Dlanga.
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.
Despite the high rate of strikes and protests, the political left has not connected with anger at the polls, writes Imraan Buccus.
There were definite winners and losers when it came to election marketing. Verashni Pillay rounds up the best and worst posters, fashion and more.
The ANC’s diminishing share of the vote in the metropoles, particularly in Gauteng, has inspired a burst of soul-searching in the ruling party.
The red berets have won over a large number of former ANC supporters in North West, despite the party being less than a year old.
?As post-election euphoria dies down, Milton Nkosi wonders if South Africa’s glass is half-full or half-empty.
The race is on for Lindiwe Mazibuko’s Parliament position between the opposition’s golden boy, Mmusi Maimane, and its black caucus’s Makashule Gana.
Stocks in emerging markets have rallied, with India seeing the biggest gains on expectation that the main opposition party will win the elections.
The EFF has made a U-turn on election discrepancies and been persuaded into respecting the IEC. What does it mean for the party’s sense of revolution?
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.
Despite its election victory, the ANC has seen a gradual drop in support, which begs the question: how "deeply rooted" is the party in SA’s heart?
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.
Alexandra residents say they fear for their lives after post-election protests broke out in the Johannesburg township on Thursday night.
The IEC can breathe a big sigh of relief after EFF leader Julius Malema accepted election results, even going as far as congratulating the ANC and DA.
After arriving back in the Western Cape, the DA head says her party will start planning for the 2016 local government elections from Monday.
Gauteng traffic police are warning the public to keep away from certain areas of Alexandra township following violent overnight protests.
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%.
Auditors have failed to catch a number of worrying issues, the M&G has learnt, leading to concerns over the poll results, particularly in Gauteng.
The ruling ANC had won the Free State but dropped below 70% of support while the DA is again the official opposition.
At 99.9% of this year’s votes counted, almost 73.5% of the voters turned up and cast their vote. Five years ago that percentage was 77.3.
While the ANC has firmly established itself in KZN, the country’s official opposition now has its foot in the door.