Coalition government partner and South Africa’s second largest political party, the Democratic Alliance, has proposed axing ...

UMkhonto weSizwe, which is led by Jacob Zuma, the populist former president, has asserted that the recent election was rigged and the results illegitimate. By John Eligon A new party led by Mr. Zuma, ...

South Africa is a profoundly unequal society, with much of the country's wealth held in only a few hands. Unemployment and ...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's second biggest political party launched a legal challenge Tuesday against a new labor law aimed at boosting the hiring of Black people and other groups in some industries ...

South African political parties ActionSA and Forum 4 Service Delivery (F4SD) will be amalgamating to contest next year’s local government elections together, hoping to win a greater joint majority.

S outh Africa is home to over 400 registered political parties — a staggering number for a country of just over 60 million ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans voting for a new national parliament on May 8 will have 48 parties to choose from -- more than at any election since the end of white minority rule in 1994.

South Africa’s Equality Court ruled Thursday that Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema’s statements at a rally on October 16, 2022, constituted hate speech, finding that they were a ...

MICHELLE GAVIN is the Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She was Senior Africa Director at the National Security Council from 2009 to 2011 and U.

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 dominated by white people three ...