ELECTIONS 2024 | All you need to know

They say they have a duty to advocate for the needs of their peers

At least 15,000 people have signed a petition to have DA MP Renaldo Gouws removed from parliament for racial remarks in ...

South Africa's new government of national unity (GNU) has five parties in it so far, representing more than two thirds ...

DA leader John Steenhuisen has hailed the DA's involvement in the formation of a government as a win for the party.

Phophi Ramathuba has been elected the first female premier of Limpopo. The ANC won a majority of the seats in the ...

The first sitting of the National Assembly is being held on Friday at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.

As the ANC is tipped to work with the DA in the government of national unity those opposing the partnership have called ...

Oscar Mabuyane was re-elected as premier of the Eastern Cape for a second term on Friday.

The government of national unity talks have sparked debate among South Africans, with many appealing to politicians to ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa will be elected with the support of the DA on Friday afternoon.

Friday is the first sitting of the National Assembly (NA) as determined by chief justice Raymond Zondo. The first ...

First sitting of the National Assembly at the Cape Town ICC.

To give the perspective of the youth some airtime, students from the Thokoza-based initiative Of Soul and Joy were ...

The Constitutional Court on Wednesday dismissed the application by the uMkhonto weSizwe Political Party (MK Party) to ...

Chief justice Raymond Zondo has declined a request from UDM’s Bantu Holomisa to convene a meeting between 18 concerned ...

The IFP will join the ANC and the DA in a government of national unity. This was announced by IFP president Velenkosi ...

ANC Youth League president Collen Malatji says some party members contesting the ANC's talks with the DA are seemingly ...

The DA federal council has announced its endorsement of federal leader John Steenhuisen and the party's negotiating ...

More than R39m later and after several years of campaigning, Herman Mashaba’s ActionSA has made it to parliament, ...

By constitutional design, it is almost impossible that South Africa could be without a president after parliament's ...

The language police on social media are having a hard time helping users understand the difference between “coalition”, ...

Equipment broke down and voting took forever, but the election outcome could have been a lot worse says Mosotho Moepya

It is unclear whether MK Party leader Jacob Zuma will attend the meeting.

ActionSA has cut the cord, formally exiting the multiparty charter..

The ANC will have to consider external voices who have raised glaring concerns about possible coalition arrangements it ...

It is the arrival of unapologetic, unfettered populism that is the story of this election, writes Tom Eaton

Law enforcement agencies’ talk must be matched by action should any threat of ‘trouble’ materialise

This is a moment of growth for all of us, calling for divorcing of personal interests in favour the national good

The DA could still do the country a service by keeping Ramaphosa in office as head of a minority government, writes ...

The National Assembly will soon elect the president of the seventh administration. We expect that to be Cyril ...

Both the ANC and opposition parties may have to consider unlikely coalitions at national and provincial levels, or ...

Whatever coalition forms in the coming days, it must place a universal basic income at the top of the agenda, writes ...

'Six wasted years' under Ramaphosa were worse than Zuma's 'nine wasted years', writes Duma Gqubule.

In the coming days the country’s future will be determined in backroom bargaining over coalition arrangements. The ...

Things are going to be different from now on, writes FM Lucky Mathebula.

Placing ANC unity at greater priority than the needs of the country come back to haunt ANC president and, ironically, ...

Examples of ANC luminaries and their partners enjoying luxury living while their subjects suffer are legion and helped ...

Once upon a time there was a man called Jacob. He was from the Zuma clan near the Nkandla forest. He ran a political ...

This week’s historic elections, in which the ANC lost its parliamentary majority, will force the party to consider a ...

Community-based governance requires a partnership between civil society, business and government, writes Dr Ina Gouws.

Unless voters stop voting on the apartheid past, but on the present, South Africa will continue to decline ...

Let May 29 not be marred by unwarranted bloodshed, sabotage of our electoral processes and undermining of our democracy ...

Political scientist Dirk Kotze gives an insight into the new electoral law and what it means for the ballot paper and ...

Voting is a potent civic engagement tool, a way to shape the future and a way to remember those who gave their lives ...

By using the symbolic and historical resources of the slogan, the MK Party challenges the struggle credentials of the ...

Without comprehensive access to the data, you’re left in relative darkness about the workings of manipulators, the role ...

Barring any last-minute disasters, Wednesday's election will be free and fair and a majority of South Africans will ...

Without reparations for racial injustice, there is no reason to talk about reconciliation, let alone under an ANC-DA ...

Political parties and the IEC must do everything possible to ensure the outcome is believable

SA may be one of the freest countries in the world — we should celebrate and protect this freedom

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says the party is not afraid to sit on the opposition benches of parliament after ...

Build One South Africa (BOSA) leader Mmusi Maimane has suggested that coalition talks be open to the public.

ANC first deputy secretary-general Nomvula Mokonyane says the party is facing "one of its most critical elections" ...

Former minister and ANC veteran Lindiwe Sisulu says she was approached to join the newly formed MK Party.

Thousands of Rise Mzansi supporters gathered at the Ruimsig Stadium in Roodepoort on Sunday for the party’s final rally ...

The EFF’s Mbuyiseni Ndozi says his party’s friend, MK Party leader Jacob Zuma, must go home and rest because he had his ...

EFF leader Julius Malema says voters should not be tempted by alcohol on election day but prioritise the polls.

Western Cape must vote ANC or miss out on ANC-government benefits, says party's secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula.

Former ANC president Thabo Mbeki says he has not put his grievances aside with the party, which “will have to get the ...

EFF leader Julius Malema claims load-shedding will be implemented when vote counting starts and votes will be stolen.

Zuma feels wronged by corruption allegations, is out for revenge against his successor and will wreak havoc, we hear in ...

Chris Hani's widow Limpho says whoever becomes president after the May 29 general elections should not have a bloated ...

With less than two months to go before the May 29 elections, EFF leader Julius Malema says he is prepared to give the ...