After 30 years of dominance, the African National Congress (ANC) faces its toughest election yet, needing 50 percent of the National Assembly to maintain its parliamentary majority. A total of ...

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress affirmed its position on the conflict in the Middle East on Oct. 14. During a high-level meeting of the party’s national executive committee ...

A seismic moment in South African politics as the party of Mandela, the ruling African National Congress, loses its absolute majority for the first time. The party of Nelson Mandela has lost its ...

the African National Congress, after throwing his support behind a rival political party and campaigning for it ahead of May's game-changing elections. Zuma was a member of the African National ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party marked its 111th anniversary Sunday with celebratory events in Mangaung, Free State province, where the organization ...

The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the ...

after his African National Congress (ANC) Party struck a last-minute coalition deal with the right-wing Democratic Alliance (DA), the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the Patriotic Alliance.

In the 2024 election, the A.N.C. faces the real prospect of falling below 50 percent of the national vote for the first time since South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994.

South Africa’s African National Congress party struck a deal Friday with the nation’s largest opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), to form the nation’s first coalition government ...

Formed in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress to press for rights of Black South Africans, it was renamed to its current appellation in 1923 and mostly functioned as an organisation ...