The election 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.
Supporters of Inkatha Freedom Party attend an election rally in Richards Bay, near Durban, South Africa, Sunday, May 26, 2024, in anticipation of the 2024 general elections scheduled for May 29.
At the start of the election, the commission said it would formally declare the results by Sunday, but that could come earlier. Observers look on as election results are displayed at the Results Operation Centre in Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday May 31, 2024. Results are displayed at the Results Operation Centre in Midland, Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday May 31, 2024. The way forward promises to be complicated for Africa’s most advanced economy, and there’s no coalition on the table yet.
Steenhuisen has said his centrist party is open to discussions. The MK Party said one of their conditions for any agreement was that Ramaphosa is removed as ANC leader and president. That underlined the fierce political battle between Zuma, who resigned as South African president under a cloud of corruption allegations in 2018, and Ramaphosa, who replaced him.
An ANC-DA coalition “would be a marriage of two drunk people in Las Vegas. It will never work,” Gayton McKenzie, the leader of the smaller Patriotic Alliance party, told South African media.
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