The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

Young South Africans are mobilizing for change in the upcoming election, determined to shape a better tomorrow.

Farm workers and dwellers with historical links to the land have worked for generations but have seen nothing in return.

South Africa's national election results show ANC at risk of losing majority, signaling potential political change and addressing societal issues.

Watch as vote counting got underway in South Africa’s election on Thursday, 30 May.

A severe storm hit South Africa’s Western Cape province between 6 and 9 April 2024, with extreme winds gusting at up to 135km/h. The storm left a trail of destruction across Cape Town and surrounding areas – at least 1,500 people were left homeless after the high winds fanned fires…

Ballot counting started on Thursday after South Africans queued late into the night to cast their votes in a pivotal election that could bring an end to the ANC's three-decade-long unchallenged majority since the end of apartheid

Very early counts in South Africa's national election put the long-ruling African National Congress at just over 42% of the vote, raising the possibility that it might lose its majority for the first time since it swept to power under Nelson Mandela at the end of apartheid in 1994.

Ballot counting was under way Thursday after South Africans queued long into the night to vote in a watershed election that could spell the end of the ANC's 30-year-old unchallenged majority.

In tonight's special edition: Vote counting is underway in South Africa as millions of people turn out for a landmark election, three decades after the end of apartheid, in a poll that could see the ruling ANC party fighting to protect its grip on power.

ANC majority in national election at risk for first time since 1990s as unemployment, corruption and power cuts erode support

Thirty years after Nelson Mandela took over as country’s first Black president, the party faces a credibility crisis.