South Africa needed years to prepare and was still on a knife-edge in the months and weeks before the election because of ongoing political violence, but the vote — held over four days between ...

South Africa: ANC faces decline amid rising opposition. In May, South Africans headed to the polls in a general election that underscored the ruling African National Congress’s (ANC) waning ...

For the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994, the ruling African National Congress lost its parliamentary majority ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday that a national dialogue aimed at uniting the country after last ...