South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Roelf Meyer as the country's ambassador to the United States.

A woman who joined Namibia’s independence movement in the 1970s is a strong contender to become its first female leader as the country votes in a presidential election.

Namibia’s Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah could become the country’s first female president if she wins the presidential election Wednesday.

South Africa’s Constitutional Court says it will hear a case next month brought by two opposition parties to revive impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Pravin Gordhan, who was a South African government minister for many years after beginning his political career opposing apartheid, has died.

South Africa’s Democratic Alliance is taking the African National Congress, the party it co-governs the country with, to court over a preelection speech given by President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma’s disciplinary hearing with the African National Congress has been postponed for more arguments, as he faces expulsion for campaigning against the organization he once led as head of a new political party.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has included seven different parties in his Cabinet in an unprecedented power-sharing agreement for the continent’s most industrialized country.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that Parliament will open on July 18 as he remains locked in negotiations with other parties to form a Cabinet well before then amid rifts in the new governing coalition.

South Africa’s main political rivals are now partners in government after they came together in a last-ditch coalition deal that ensured President Cyril Ramaphosa was dramatically reelected with cross-party support.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been reelected by lawmakers for a second term after his African National Congress party struck a dramatic late coalition deal with the main opposition and other parties.

A top official with South Africa’s African National Congress party says it has a broad agreement with the main opposition and other parties to form a coalition government.

South African opposition parties are meeting and will continue crunch talks into next week to consider the ruling African National Congress’ offer to become part of a government of national unity.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is meeting with senior officials of the African National Congress to decide how to go about forming a government after the party lost its 30-year grip on power and left a post-election deadlock.

South Africa is in a moment of deep soul-searching after an election that brought a jarring split from the African National Congress party.

South Africa’s election has decided little, other than the African National Congress that liberated the country from apartheid in 1994 has lost its 30-year majority.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for his country's political parties to overcome their differences and find “common ground” to form the first national coalition government in its young democracy.

It was a historic day for South Africa.

The African National Congress party has lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago.

South Africa is heading closer to the reality of a national coalition government for the first time as partial election results put the ruling African Nation Congress well short of a majority.

The real politicking in South Africa may start after the election results are announced as the country faces the possibility of no outright winner.

Partial results in South Africa’s national election have put the long-ruling African National Congress at less than 50% of the vote.

South Africans have voted in a national election that could be the country’s most hotly contested in 30 years.

South Africans have voted in an election seen as their country’s most important in 30 years.

South African opposition parties are making a final appeal to voters as the country faces the possibility of a landmark change in its young democracy.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma is the wild card in Wednesday’s election for Africa’s most advanced country.

South Africans will vote Wednesday to decide whether their country takes its most significant political step since it brought down apartheid and achieved democracy 30 years ago.

South Africa’s main opposition party Democratic Alliance has made its final call to South Africans to help it unseat the ruling African National Congress.

South Africa’s four main political parties have begun a final weekend of campaigning before a possibly pivotal election that could bring the country’s most important change in 30 years.

The focus for South Africa’s national election next week is on the fate of the African National Congress party and whether it is going to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma has criticized the country’s highest court and his former allies in the ruling African National Congress over his disqualification from next week’s election.

The struggle starts early in the Hammanskraal area of South Africa as people queue some mornings to fill buckets with water from a tank provided by an aid agency.

South Africa’s African National Congress rose above politics for years.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been barred from running in next week’s national election over a previous criminal conviction, the latest twist in his return to politics.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been disqualified from running for a seat in Parliament in next week's national election because of a previous criminal conviction.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma has lamented the high levels of poverty among black South Africans and promised to create jobs and tackle crime as he launched his new political party’s manifesto ahead of the country’s much anticipated elections.

South Africa’s election will determine how weary the country has become of the ruling African National Congress party, which has been in power since the end of apartheid 30 years ago.

After 30 years of dominating South African politics, the ruling African National Congress will face its toughest election this month as most opinion polls predict it will lose its parliamentary majority for the first time.

South African police are investigating if former President Jacob Zuma’s new political party forged supporters’ signatures to register for national elections next month.

South Africa has marked 30 years since the end of apartheid with a ceremony in the capital.

South Africans celebrate their “Freedom Day” every April 27.

South Africa faces an unusual national election this year, its seventh vote since transitioning from white minority rule to a democracy 30 years ago.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is taking the independent electoral body and a rival political party fronted by the country’s former leader to court.

Polls suggest South Africa faces a historic turning point in a national election in May.

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has highlighted the achievements of his ruling African National Congress, which has ruled the country for all of its 30 years of democracy, as it heads into a tight race in May’s election.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the highly anticipated national election will be held on May 29.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa confronted some of his country’s deep problems in his annual State of the Nation speech in Parliament on Thursday.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma has denounced the governing African National Congress party and announced that he will vote for a newly-formed political formation in the country’s general election next year.

A majority of South African lawmakers have voted in favor of a motion calling for the closure of the Israeli embassy and the cutting of diplomatic ties until Israel agrees to a cease-fire in Gaza.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party expelled its former secretary-general on Monday for misconduct and other breaches of party rules.

A senior South African government minister denied Wednesday there was extensive corruption within the ruling African Nations Congress party in relation to the country’s financially-crippled power utility.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has canceled his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos in order to deal with his country’s worsening power blackouts.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party on Sunday marks its 111th anniversary with celebratory events in Mangaung, Free State province, where the organization was founded in 1912.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged his party, the ruling African National Congress, to fight corruption.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has won reelection as leader of the ruling African National Congress party.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party has started its crucial national conference amid scandal and bitter divisions.

South Africa’s parliament voted against starting impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa over a report that says he held undeclared foreign currency at his farm in 2020.

South Africa’s lawmakers have postponed until next week a debate on the damning report that has resulted in calls for President Cyril Ramaphosa to step down.

A crucial meeting of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party to discuss the future of President Cyril Ramaphosa got underway in Johannesburg on Monday.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa looked relaxed and shared a joke with journalists as the African National Congress party’s national working committee is discussing his political fate.

South Africa’s president might lose his job as he faces possible impeachment over claims that he tried to cover up the theft of millions of dollars stashed inside a couch on his farm.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to the long-serving deputy secretary-general of his ruling African National Congress party Jessie Duarte, who died Sunday after a long battle with cancer.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa faces daunting political challenges including being defied within his party over his anti-corruption drive and derided as ineffective by the opposition.

The second part of a judicial report on corruption in South Africa has been handed over to President Cyril Ramaphosa.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the ruling party, the African National Congress, must work to regain popular support after being embroiled in corruption scandals and divided by bitter factional rivalries.

South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, is to celebrate its 110th anniversary this weekend amid deep divisions, graft allegations and broad challenges that saw it perform dismally in local government elections last year.

Experts in South Africa say President Cyril Ramaphosa is challenged to take decisive action against the corruption documented in a judicial report presented to the leader and made public.

South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, has lost control of the city councils of Johannesburg and other major cities, following recent local government elections.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party has received less than 50% of votes in nationwide elections for the first time.

South Africa’s voters have delivered a significant rebuke to the governing African National Congress, the party of late anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, which got less than 50% of ballots cast in local government elections.

South Africans are voting in local government elections that will offer an indication if support for the ruling African National Congress has rebounded after waning in recent years.

As South Africa heads to crucial local elections, the country has been hit by a series of crippling power blackouts that many critics say highlight poor governance.

After uncertainty over whether COVID-19 would force South Africa to postpone local government elections, the courts have ruled that the crucial polls should move ahead.

South African photographer John Parkin has died at the age of 63.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party has sent some of its top leaders to defuse rising tensions over the pending arrest of former President Jacob Zuma.

The South African government has urged calm and restraint in Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, which has been engulfed by pro-democracy protests this week amid growing reports of state violence against demonstrators.

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has intensified the country’s anti-corruption drive with the suspension of his African National Congress party’s secretary-general, who is facing corruption charges in court.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has claimed there was “nothing sinister” about the funding for his 2017 political campaign to become president of the ruling party, the African National Congress.

(AP Photo/File)JOHANNESBURG – King Goodwill Zwelithini, the traditional leader of South Africa's Zulu nation, has died aged 72 after being hospitalized for more than a month, his family announced Friday. Zwelithini, the eighth Zulu king, reigned for more than 50 years, making him the longest-serving Zulu monarch. King Zwelithini was an outspoken critic of the government’s planned land redistribution policy, which could affect large tracts of land belonging to the Zulu nation. Opposition politicians also expressed their condolences to the Zulu nation. “Our heartfelt condolences go out to his family, the Royal House and the Zulu nation in this time of loss.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrives at a hospital in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, to receive a Johnson and Johnson vaccine. It's in defiance of Ramaphosa and ANC policy that officials facing corruption charges should step aside until their criminal cases are finalized. I’ll prove (it) in court," Magashule said outside the courthouse, where people wearing green and yellow ANC T-shirts gathered in support of him. Both Zuma and Magashule have challenged Ramaphosa since he replaced Zuma as ANC leader in 2017 and became South Africa's president in 2018. AdThat scandal further angered South Africans who have been inundated with allegations of high-level corruption during the state corruption commission, which is probing Zuma's time as president from 2009-18.

Magashule may be forced to step down after the party's integrity commission recommended that he be suspended because he has been charged with corruption. Magashule was charged in court with 21 counts of fraud and corruption earlier this month. The recommendation for him to step down may have far-reaching implications for other ANC leaders who have been charged with corruption. The party has been criticized for not enforcing its policy of having leaders step down while they face criminal charges, including corruption. The very top of the ANC will have to insist that Magashule step down, said Mathekga.

Magashule is charged in connection with the looting of $13.8 million when he was premier of the Free State province from 2009 until 2018. (AP Photo)JOHANNESBURG – A top official of South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress, has been charged with 21 counts of fraud and corruption, a significant step in President Cyril Ramaphosa's drive against graft in the country. He was cheered by hundreds of supporters who gathered outside the courthouse, showing that many within the ruling party do not support the anti-corruption campaign. This demonstration was despite the party’s call that people should only support Magashule as individuals, not under the banner of the party. The demonstration to support Magashule shows that there are many within the ANC who do not support Ramaphosa's anti-corruption drive.