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South Africa's links to Russia and China, through military co-operation [101] and potential co-operation with Iran [102] has placed the country in danger of losing its preferential access to the U.S. market through the African Growth and Opportunity Act, with multiple members of the U.S. Congress raising concern with South Africa's alleged ...
A South African general election was held on 29 May 2024 to elect the 28th Parliament of South Africa. [1] [2] Support for the incumbent governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), significantly declined in the election; the ANC remained the largest party but lost its majority in the National Assembly for the first time since the inaugural post-apartheid election in 1994. [3]
The incumbent president Cyril Ramaphosa of the African National Congress won a third term. [ 3 ] Former President Jacob Zuma has challenged the results of the general election in court , and declared his intention to boycott the vote on 14 June and the former president also declared that he will not be part of Government of National Unity (GNU).
[10] [11] 29 May 2024 South African general election: The ANC party fails to win a majority of the vote for the first time in South Africa's democratic history. [12] [13] 2024 Malagasy parliamentary election: President Andry Rajoelina's party, Tanora Malagasy Vonona, loses their majority at the National Assembly, winning only 80 seats out of ...
[32] [33] In 2011, Ramaphosa paid for a 20-year master franchise agreement to run 145 McDonald's restaurants in South Africa. [34] He also belonged to the Coca-Cola Company International Advisory Board [34] and the Unilever Africa Advisory Council. Ramaphosa's various shareholdings made him one of South Africa's richest men. [35]
The party intended to contest the 2024 South African general election [1] but was unable to supply the required signatures in time to do so. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The party contested its first by-elections in December 2024 , winning a ward off the African National Congress , as well as an additional PR seat, in the elections held after the dissolution of ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 January 2025. Head of state and government of South Africa This article is about the position of South African head of state and head of government from 1994. For the position of South African head of state from 1961 to 1994, see State President of South Africa. President of the Republic of South ...
14 June – Cyril Ramaphosa is re-elected as President of South Africa for a second term. [21] 19 June – Cyril Ramaphosa is sworn in for a second term as President of South Africa. [22] 20 June – Democratic Alliance MP Renaldo Gouws is suspended after old videos of him making derogatory and inciteful remarks against black people emerge ...