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President Jacob Zuma.

Zuma discharged from hospital, ordered to rest

The presidency has announced that Jacob Zuma has been sent home from hospital to rest for a few days following a gruelling election campaign.

During President Jacob Zuma’s successful electioneering campaign in Mpumalanga

Zuma released from hospital to fight another day

The president has been released from hospital after a small health scare. But he can ill afford to rest after years of watching his back.

ANC Youth League to march on M&G offices

Gauteng’s ANC Youth League has announced it will march to the M&G for being a "willing propagandist of a counter-revolution against the ANC".

*Pam Dlamini is HIV positive

Zille: I made no attacks on Mazibuko

The DA leader says reports that she said she "made" Lindiwe Mazibuko were distorted and leaked from a party meeting with an agenda.

Who will SA’s next premiers be?

The final legislature lists released on Friday revealed an interesting dynamic when it came to gender and the ANC’s choices for premiers.

President Zuma cannot be praised for these results; the ANC deserves all the praise for pulling this one off

Khaya Dlanga: The ANC won despite flawed president

The ANC deserves praise for winning above 60% of the total votes in the elections, but not for its controversial president, writes Khaya Dlanga.

Left wing dips into ocean of irrelevance

Despite the high rate of strikes and protests, the political left has not connected with anger at the polls, writes Imraan Buccus.

As the 2014 elections drew to a close

Editorial: No monopoly on power for anyone

The election outcome was a call by South Africans for soul-searching and a warning against complacency that the ANC and DA ignore at their peril.

Urban voting statistics give ANC pause for thought

The ANC’s diminishing share of the vote in the metropoles, particularly in Gauteng, has inspired a burst of soul-searching in the ruling party.

Awards: Who had the best election swag?

There were definite winners and losers when it came to election marketing. Verashni Pillay rounds up the best and worst posters, fashion and more.

EFF leader Julius Malema addressing the crowds at the party’s final rally ahead of the 2014 elections.

Is the EFF the calm before a real leftist storm?

The red berets have won over a large number of former ANC supporters in North West, despite the party being less than a year old.

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Twenty years later, where is South Africa going?

?As post-election euphoria dies down, Milton Nkosi wonders if South Africa’s glass is half-full or half-empty.

News of Makashule Gana’s possible play for the second top spot in the party broke on Twitter on Tuesday thanks to DA youth leader Mbali Ntuli

Maimane vs Gana: Battle lines drawn in the DA

The race is on for Lindiwe Mazibuko’s Parliament position between the opposition’s golden boy, Mmusi Maimane, and its black caucus’s Makashule Gana.

Cut-outs of election candidates in India ahead of the elections. Stocks rallied on speculation that the main opposition party would win.

Emerging stocks rise as India leads world gains on election poll

Stocks in emerging markets have rallied, with India seeing the biggest gains on expectation that the main opposition party will win the elections.

Will Malema’s revolution be co-opted by the system?

The EFF has made a U-turn on election discrepancies and been persuaded into respecting the IEC. What does it mean for the party’s sense of revolution?

Tradition: Xhosa initiate Fezikhaya Tselane

KZN man arrested for ANC volunteer’s murder

A man in KwaZulu-Natal has been arrested in connection with the election-day murder of Thando Mhlongo. But the motive for her killing is unknown.

ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe

After the party, it’s time for the ANC to ponder

The ANC has won this election, even with a compromised leader. But waning support and stronger opposition are problems it will not want to face.

President Jacob Zuma speaks to supporters in Library Gardens in Johannesburg on Saturday night.

We are very grateful winners, says ANC’s Gigaba

Ruling party member Malusi Gigaba says the ANC would be "ungrateful winners" for questioning how it lost 38% of the votes in this year’s elections.

Thousands flocked to the Library Gardens in Johannesburg on Saturday night to celebrate the ANC’s election victory.

The party’s over: ANC sees decline in support

Despite its election victory, the ANC has seen a gradual drop in support, which begs the question: how "deeply rooted" is the party in SA’s heart?

The Independent Electoral Commission has weathered a storm to criticism to declare the 2014 elections free and fair.

IEC: Election wasn’t perfect, but it was free and fair

The Independent Electoral Commission has weathered a storm of criticism to declare the 2014 elections free and fair.