"What this election has made plain is that the people of South Africa expect their leaders to ... The ANC won 159 seats on a ...

The EFF won 44 parliament seats in 2019 and was the ... to be party president – and perhaps South Africa’s president – before the next general elections in 2029, paving the way for Mashatile ...

In a pre-election deal, a group of parties - led by the DA - signed up to what has been called the Multi-Party Charter for South Africa. If together they get more than 50% of the seats ...

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We're also expecting to hear exactly how many seats each party has got in the 400-seat National Assembly. The president and government should enjoy the support of at least 201 of those MPs.

The parties then get seats in parliament according to ... in certain areas and were oppressed in every way. This election is only South Africa’s seventh national vote in which people of all ...

But liberals’ fears that this year would reflect the global triumph of illiberal populism have so far been proved wrong.

If the ANC gets less than 50% of the vote, it will have to form a coalition. South Africa's 400-seat National Assembly elects the president, and it's unclear if President Cyril Ramaphosa would get ...

[Photo,AFP] South Africa's governing African National Congress lost its 30-year-old outright majority in this week's election, winning only 159 seats in the 400-seat parliament, official results ...