The ANC has won all national elections since the end of apartheid in 1994 when Nelson Mandela became the country’s first Black president. In 1994, the ANC won 62.5 percent of the vote. In 1999 ...

African National Congress (ANC) polling agents set up a tent decorated with party paraphernalia outside a polling station in Umlazi on May 29, during South Africa's general election.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma was disqualified from the upcoming national election due to a prior criminal conviction by the Constitutional Court. Zuma's conviction for contempt ...

On May 8, South Africans will vote in national elections for the sixth time since the end of apartheid and the transition to “non-racial” elections in 1994. While there are forty-eight ...

Item 1 of 2 Election posters of different political parties are seen, as South Africa prepares for national and provincial elections to be held on May 29, in Pretoria, South Africa, April 5, 2024.

But in March, the country’s Independent Electoral Commission announced that 52 parties had registered to contest the national election in 2024. The country’s largest opposition party is the ...

South Africa will hold elections on May 29, President Cyril Ramaphosa said, setting the stage for a contest in which his ruling party faces the biggest threat to its national majority since coming ...

Elections are taking place this year in countries home to almost half of the world's population, from Taiwan's general election in January to the U.S. presidential race in November. The votes come ...