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South Africa’s general election in May 2024 fundamentally changed the country’s political landscape when the African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority for the first time. Collette Schulz-Herzenberg and Roger Southall are the editors of a new book called Election 2024, South Africa: Countdown to Coalition. They fielded some questions.

Several countries recorded total electoral power transfers while opposition groups made significant wins in others.

Letters: Politicians including Jeremy Corbyn and MPs from the Green party and Plaid Cymru respond to the chancellor’s plans. Plus a letter from Peter Riddle

Leading figure in Nelson Mandela’s ANC government who helped transform South Africa’s economy

The £3.5m Islington-based project will involve transforming the building into a vibrant cultural space, and is located at the ANC’s former London HQ

A recent poll by the Social Research Foundation, a think thank, found that 60% of South Africans thought the government of national unity was working well. It also reported that support for the unity government’s anchor political parties, the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA), had risen…

It is sad to write about Tito Mboweni in the past tense.

Wednesday’s polls are expected to usher a younger president into power for the first time since independence in 1975.

South Africa’s long-governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), performed disastrously in the country’s May 2024 elections. Its electoral fortunes are now tied to regaining support in Gauteng, the most populous and economically important province, which it had governed with outright majorities since 1994. In 2024 the ANC’s Gauteng result…