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South Africa was heading closer to the reality of a national coalition government for the first time and a series of complex negotiations to achieve that, as partial election results Friday put ...
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 ...
The Union of South Africa adopted a system of governance based on the political system of the United Kingdom. The British monarch was the ceremonial head of state of South Africa and was represented by a Governor-General. Real political power lay in the hands of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The basic ideas of this system such as a three ...
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 ...
In the biggest shift in South African politics since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule in 1994, the long-ruling ANC dropped to just 40% of the vote and no party won a majority.
19 May – Mary-Anne Plaatjies van Huffel, 60, South African pastor and academic; complications from surgery [54] 2 June – Jeanne Goosen, 81, South African writer. [55] 12 June – Kirvan Fortuin, 28, South African dancer, choreographer and LGBTQI activist, stabbed. [56] 14 June – Elsa Joubert, 97, South African Sestigers writer, COVID-19. [57]
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).
In November, a chasm opened in the middle of one of the most popular online reading spaces. It started after the election, as political chatter bled into BookTok.On one side of the app, readers ...