South Africa's ruling party the African National Congress (ANC) has lost the metropolitan area which includes the capital in its biggest election setback since it took power 22 years ago.

South Africa’s election commission completed a vote count that confirms the ruling African National Congress as the winner but also shows the strengthening of prominent opposition groups, according to results today.

South African president Jacob Zuma has been elected to remain head of the governing African National Congress political party.

South Africa’s governing ANC party is to take legal action to remove a painting from an exhibition that ridicules the party and the president with graphic imagery.

South Africa’s parliament elected Jacob Zuma as president today, cheering the astonishing rise of a self-educated teenage goatherder who transformed himself into the leader of Africa’s economic powerhouse.

Final results from South Africa’s elections give the long-dominant ANC party a clear victory but not the two-thirds majority it hoped for.

South African elections results released today show the African National Congress might have fallen short of winning its cherished two-thirds parliamentary majority.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress neared its aim of a two-thirds majority in elections today but lost power in the country’s richest province because of hostility from mixed-race voters.

South Africa’s governing party led in preliminary results today in elections expected to propel Jacob Zuma to the presidency.

South Africa’s likely next president Jacob Zuma was looking beyond today’s national vote, eager to set up a new government that he said will bring “visible change” to improve the lives of the country’s black majority.

South African president Thabo Mbeki has agreed to resign following orders from the ruling party.

African National Congress president Jacob Zuma will be the party’s presidential candidate next year despite his pending trial for corruption, money laundering, fraud and racketeering, it was confirmed today.

Voting began today in the bitter battle to become next leader of the African National Congress.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress today opened its conference in Polokwane to elect a new president amid bitter divisions between incumbent Thabo Mbeki and his deputy Jacob Zuma.

South Africans of all races voted today for a new government for the third time in a decade with the party credited with ending apartheid assured of another sweeping victory.

South Africans vote in national elections for the third time today a mere decade after the country’s first vote to include all racial groups ended white minority rule.