C APE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans celebrate their “Freedom Day” every April 27, when they remember their country's pivotal first democratic election in 1994 that announced the ...

This was the country's seventh democratic general election. Nearly 28 million South African had registered ... independent candidates were included for the first time. This meant that South ...

The people of South Africa may have given the ANC a mandate ... a "bruising outcome", some have said. It's the first election in which the party's vote share has not grown. In fact, it lost ...

South Africa has enjoyed 30 years of democracy after apartheid, and, for the first time, the stakes are significantly high in ...

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The leader of South Africa's second biggest party says there will be conflict in the new coalition government, and it should ...

South Africa's central bank struck a measured tone after its first rate cut in more than four years on Thursday, saying ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's office said he would sign into law a disputed education ...

The South African rand edged higher against a weaker dollar in early trade on Wednesday, with the greenback on the defensive ...

Three decades after the advent of democracy, South Africa will go to the polls on May 29 for general elections and perhaps the first serious challenge to ANC rule. South Africa's former President ...

Pravin Gordhan, who was a South African government minister for many years after beginning his political career opposing ...