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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (centre) sings the national anthem before being sworn is as a member of Parliament ahead of an expected vote by lawmakers to decide if he is reelected as leader of the country in Cape Town, South Africa, June 14, 2024
THE African National Congress (ANC) and Democratic Alliance (DA) agreed to form South Africa’s first coalition government alongside the Inkatha Freedom Party today.
The coalition, which will be known as the Government of National Unity, paved the way for Cyril Ramaphosa to be elected for a second term as the country’s president.
Many supporters of the ANC still see DA as a racist party trying to make sure that white people hang on to the economic privileges they built up during the apartheid years.
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10
The shared path of the South African Communist Party and the ANC to the ballot box has found itself at a junction. SABINA PRICE reports
SALEEM BADAT and VASU REDDY introduce a new book about an outstanding interpreter of the world, and an activist scholar committed to changing society
The charter emerged from a profoundly democratic process where people across South Africa answered ‘What kind of country do we want?’ — but imperial backlash and neoliberal compromise deferred its deepest transformations, argues RONNIE KASRILS