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The indirect presidential election of the President of South Africa by the National Assembly took place on 14 June 2024, [1] following the general election on 29 May 2024, in which the African National Congress lost the outright parliamentary majority it held from the end of apartheid. [2] The incumbent president Cyril Ramaphosa of the African ...
Party National ballot Regional ballot Total seats +/– Votes % +/– Seats Votes % +/– Seats; African National Congress: 6,459,683: 40.18 –17.32: 73: 6,231,519 ...
v. t. e. General elections were held in South Africa on 29 May 2024 to elect a new National Assembly as well as the provincial legislature in each of the nine provinces. [1][2] This was the 7th general election held under the conditions of universal adult suffrage since the end of the apartheid era in 1994.
The Third Cabinet of Cyril Ramaphosa, also self-described as a "Government of National Unity" (GNU), was formed following the election of Ramaphosa to a second full term as President of South Africa following the 2024 general election. His party, the African National Congress (ANC), lost its absolute majority in the parliamentary election and ...
Paul Mashatile. Paulus Shipokosa Mashatile (born 21 October 1961) is a South African politician who is the 9th Deputy President of South Africa. He became Deputy President of the governing African National Congress (ANC) in December 2022. Before his election to that position, he was ANC Treasurer-General from December 2017 and acting ANC ...
uMkhonto weSizwe (Zulu for 'Spear of the Nation'), abbreviated as MK, and often referred to as the MK Party, is a nominally left-wing populist [4][7] South African political party, founded in December 2023. The party is named after uMkhonto weSizwe (also shortened to MK), the paramilitary wing of the African National Congress (ANC) which was ...
The deputy president is generally appointed as the leader of government business in the Parliament of South Africa by the president. Under the interim constitution (valid from 1994 to 1996), there was a Government of National Unity , in which a member of parliament from the largest opposition party was entitled to a position as deputy president.
The National Assembly of South Africa is elected every five years by party-list proportional representation using closed lists. [2] The lists were first published on 26 March 2024, with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) allowing objections to be lodged, pending a final decision on 28 March 2024. In lists available on 27 March 2024, it ...