(Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s ruling party looks set to lose its outright majority in national elections for the first time since 1994, while support for the populist Economic Freedom Fighters may ...

(Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s biggest political party plans a 0.75 percentage-point increase in value-added tax in a revised national budget this month, warning it will approach groups outside the ...

The ANC won back a seat from the EFF in convincing fashion in the final Limpopo by-election of the year. This historic seat was won by the EFF in 2021. Ward 30 (Roossenekal Sango) Elias Motsoaledi, ...

Natal in a year of local government elections as IFP and ANC leaders consider booting the red berets from all local ...

The ANC easily retained a fiercely contested ward in the township of Simile in Sabie, Mpumalanga, on 18 June. The EFF finished well ahead of the uMkhonto Wesizwe party and a regional party in the ...

The National Freedom Party says there is no agreement between it, the MK Party and the EFF on plans to co-govern KZN.

The ANC has the support of 40.2% of voters, pollster Ipsos said in a report released on Friday. That compares with 40.5% in a survey published on Feb. 6, and 43% in October. In the last election in ...

In South Africa, Magashule’s dismissal by the ruling party on Monday is the ‘final sanction’ of the former secretary general, according to party spokesperson Mahlengi Motsiri. His expulsion feeds ...

The 2026 local elections will further fragment South Africa’s party system, and the biggest losers may be the ANC, EFF and MKP, writes Mcebisi Ndletyana.

With his new political party, Ace Magashule has vowed to harm his former paymaster, the African National Congress (ANC), but observers say he may only end up encroaching into a tiny fraction of fellow ...

Statistics South Africa’s latest Poverty Trends report covering the period from 2006 to 2023 reveals the scale of social devastation in South Africa, underscoring the failure of a capitalist system ...