Latest articles on Elections 2014

Zuma discharged from hospital, ordered to rest

Article Sapa - 9 Jun 2014

The presidency has announced that Jacob Zuma has been sent home from hospital to rest for a few days following a gruelling election campaign.

Zuma released from hospital to fight another day

Article Verashni Pillay - 9 Jun 2014

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.

ANC Youth League to march on M&G offices

Article Staff Reporter - 4 Jun 2014

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".

Zille: I made no attacks on Mazibuko

Article Staff Reporter - 18 May 2014

The DA leader says reports that she said she "made" Lindiwe Mazibuko were distorted and leaked from a party meeting with an agenda.

Who will SA’s next premiers be?

Article Matuma Letsoala, Mmanaledi Mataboge & Verashni Pillay - 17 May 2014

The final legislature lists released on Friday revealed an interesting dynamic when it came to gender and the ANC's choices for premiers.

Khaya Dlanga: The ANC won despite flawed president

Article Staff Reporter - 15 May 2014

The ANC deserves praise for winning above 60% of the total votes in the elections, but not for its controversial president, writes Khaya Dlanga.

Awards: Who had the best election swag?

Article Verashni Pillay - 15 May 2014

There were definite winners and losers when it came to election marketing. Verashni Pillay rounds up the best and worst posters, fashion and more.

Urban voting statistics give ANC pause for thought

Article Verashni Pillay - 15 May 2014

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.

Is the EFF the calm before a real leftist storm?

Article Staff Reporter - 15 May 2014

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.

Editorial: No monopoly on power for anyone

Article Editorial - 15 May 2014

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.

Left wing dips into ocean of irrelevance

Analysis Imraan Buccus - 15 May 2014

Despite the high rate of strikes and protests, the political left has not connected with anger at the polls, writes Imraan Buccus.

Twenty years later, where is South Africa going?

Analysis Staff Reporter - 14 May 2014

?As post-election euphoria dies down, Milton Nkosi wonders if South Africa's glass is half-full or half-empty.

Maimane vs Gana: Battle lines drawn in the DA

Article Verashni Pillay - 14 May 2014

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.

Emerging stocks rise as India leads world gains on election poll

Article Staff Reporter - 13 May 2014

Stocks in emerging markets have rallied, with India seeing the biggest gains on expectation that the main opposition party will win the elections.

Will Malema’s revolution be co-opted by the system?

Article Verashni Pillay - 13 May 2014

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?

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