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The rise and rise of Helen Zille.
Leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) Helen Zille is set to become the premier of the Western Cape after her party won a clear majority of the popular vote in provincial elections on 22 April. This w...
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Zille new Western Cape premier.
Mayor of Cape Town Helen Zille is to become premier of the Western Cape provincial government after her party, Democratic Alliance (DA), took the province from the national ruling ANC in the 22 April...
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The African National Congress (ANC) has won the national elections in South Africa but lost the two-thirds majority in parliament needed to make constitutional changes unilaterally. Final results give...
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ANC set for decisive win in South Africa polls.
The African National Congress (ANC) looks set for a decisive victory in South Africa
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South Africans cast their vote.
Polling stations have opened in South Africa for what some observers say are the most exciting general elections since the end of apartheid in 1994.
Over 23 million citizens out of a total population...
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Voting in presidential and parliamentary elections officially ended at 21.00 local time although election officials said earlier in the day that anyone already in line to vote at that point would be a...
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South Africa prepares for elections.
Political parties in South Africa held their final rallies ahead of general elections on 22 April.
Jacob Zuma, leader and presidential candidate for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) addres...
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South African ex-pats cast their vote.
South Africans in the diaspora are casting their vote in national and provincial elections a week before the country officially goes to the polls. Nearly 18,000 South African ex-pats registered to vot...
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Bishop Mvhume Dandala to lead COPE.
Methodist bishop Mvhume Dandala has been chosen as the presidential candidate of South Africa
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South African elections on 22 April.
On 22 April South Africans will go to the polls to elect their next parliament and provincial assemblies, interim president Kgalema Motlanthe has said. In a speech published on the website of the pres...
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Voter registration in South Africa.
South Africans who have not registered to vote in this year
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A judge has postponed until 25 August the hearing in the case against the president of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), Jacob Zuma, who faces charges of corruption, money-laundering and rac...
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A South African appeal court has reinstated corruption charges against the controversial president of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), Jacob Zuma, in the latest twist in a long-running saga...
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New caretaker president appointed.
Deputy leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) Kgalema Motlanthe has been nominated as caretaker president following the resignation of Thabo Mbeki on 21 September. Motlanthe, a veteran A...
