A potpourri of 48 political parties will contest South Africa's general election on Wednesday -- a record number. The African National Congress rose from a liberation movement to govern Africa's most ...

A coalition government is now a fact of life in South Africa. The events of 2025 and the upcoming 2026 local elections show ...

For democracies to function well, citizens have to trust their institutions. Every incidence of bad service delivery or ...

This survey was conducted less than a year after the 2024 election in which the African National Congress (ANC) lost a majority of seats for the first time since the end of apartheid. At the time of ...

Ellon Musk's Starlink is currently being pushed by the DA through its own Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies ...

South Africa, a normally vocal presence in global climate and environment forums, has eroded its influence because of a political fight that led to the firing of its environment minister. The country, ...

Patrice Motsepe’s persistent refusal to be drawn into the African National Congress (ANC) succession drama is not an act of ...

JOHANNESBURG, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The Democratic Alliance, the second-biggest party in South Africa's coalition government, wants to axe race-based laws aimed at boosting Black jobs in an economy still ...

Elite capture, institutional weakness and cycles of reversal explain the situation in several post-colonial countries.

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 11 (Reuters) - The second biggest party in South Africa's ruling coalition thinks the 30% tariff Donald Trump imposed on its exports to the U.S. will stay unless the government ...