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In 2024, the African National Congress (ANC) lost its parliamentary majority, although the ANC remained the largest party, receiving 40.18 percent of the vote. The Democratic Alliance (DA) received the second-highest number of votes (21.81 percent) followed by the new, Jacob Zuma-led, MK party (14.58 percent) and EFF (9.52 percent). [145]
The National Conference of the African National Congress is a party congress that is held every five years. It elects members to the National Executive Committee, the party's highest decision-making body, as well as the "Top Six" leaders of the National Executive. The next national conference, the ANC's 56th, will be held in December 2027. [1]
By 2002, Mbeki's relationship with the ANC's Tripartite Alliance partners, the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), had become highly (and publicly) acrimonious, particularly due to disputes over his neoliberal economic policies.
The 52nd National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) was held in Polokwane, Limpopo, from 16 to 20 December 2007.At the conference, Jacob Zuma and his supporters were elected to the party's top leadership and National Executive Committee (NEC), dealing a significant defeat to national President Thabo Mbeki, who had sought a third term in the ANC presidency.
So-called branch nominations – nominations voted on by the ANC's local branches – opened on 7 September 2022; [1] [37] they were initially scheduled to end on 2 October, but the deadline was extended twice when many branches faced delays in holding meetings. [38]
The 50th National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) took place from 16 to 20 December 1997 at the University of the North West [1] in what was then called Mafikeng. Attended by 3,000 voting delegates, [ 2 ] the conference elected a successor to outgoing ANC President Nelson Mandela , who declined to stand for another term.
In October 2012, the ANC's Tripartite Alliance partner, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, endorsed Zuma's presidency, but also endorsed Motlanthe for the deputy presidency. [12] Blade Nzimande , the General Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), expressed the SACP's satisfaction with Zuma's leadership at the SACP's ...
The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa. It originated as a liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid and has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election resulted in Nelson Mandela being elected as President of South Africa .