General elections 2024
From breaking news to hard-hitting analysis and multimedia content: we bring you everything you need to know about South Africa's upcoming general elections
LATEST NEWS
EXPLAINER | How to put your ‘X’ times 3 when you vote in 2024’s general ...
South Africa's seventh democratic elections will be held on May 29 for voters to select the government of their choice ...
Key issues for voters in wide-open 2024 elections
South Africans will vote in national elections on May 29 with an unprecedented sense of uncertainty about the outcome, ...
Thabo Mbeki warns ANC leaders to ‘keep election promises’
Former president Thabo Mbeki has concluded his KwaZulu-Natal election campaign with a stern warning to the ANC to keep ...
S'THEMBISO MSOMI | Few ANC posters on the poles, but many votes at the ...
It’s been a low-profile campaign in terms of posters, but the ruling party approaches the elections with a renewed ...
Voter apathy is due to ANC failures and not tribal, says Thabo Mbeki
Former ANC president Thabo Mbeki says it is not true that KwaZulu-Natal voters vote along tribal lines. Instead, voters ...
ANC’s bigwigs on KZN charm offensive
The ANC is going to have a tough time convincing undecided voters in KwaZulu-Natal to give the party another chance. ...
FM LUCKY MATHEBULA | DA’s flag-burning advert is treasonous
The sight of a post-apartheid South African flag burning in your lounge through a national news agency should have ...
Zuma denounces disunity in MK Party
Former president attacks those who are ‘greedy for positions’ on the eve of elections
Steenhuisen makes bizarre claim of Ramaphosa’s threat of violence in KZN
Chris Pappas’ campaign to become premier of KwaZulu-Natal received a shot in the arm when DA leader John Steenhuisen ...
Mashaba predicts ActionSA victory in Gauteng
Self-made businessman beats the drum against illegal immigrants and ‘draconian’ labour laws that stifle job creation ...
SALIM ABDOOL KARIM | Vote — to protect our freedoms and fix our failures
South Africa’s journey to democracy was guided by the Freedom Charter and its laudable aspiration of “All shall enjoy ...
Defiant Helen Zille stands by ‘egregious’ TV campaign ad
The DA is refusing to blink amid a political storm over its campaign TV advert depicting the national flag burning, ...
‘Nothing stops a bullet like a job’: Alan Winde
To understand the workings behind the running of the Western Cape, Sisanda Mbolekwa spoke to premier Alan Winde.
JOHN STEENHUISEN | SA has a choice: 2-million new jobs under the DA or ...
Why did the DA flight an advertisement this week showing the flag burning? Because it’s time for some hard truths to be ...
SISANDA MBOLEKWA | ‘The air of freedom just has not permeated int
The air of freedom just has not permeated into the corners of Cape Town, writes Sisanda Mbolekwa.
'Unemployed youth, do not despair,' David Mabuza tells troubled Alex ...
Sewage spilling into the streets, houses almost on top of one another and schoolchildren laughing as armed criminals ...
LISTEN | Local businesses must be run by South Africans: Herman Mashaba
Small businesses in South Africa must be run by South Africans, not foreigners, says ActionSA leader and former ...
PODCAST | DA should have burnt ANC flag instead, says Mashaba
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba is in conversation with Sunday Times deputy editor Mike Siluma on the Sunday Times ...
Zuma requests ConCourt justices to recuse themselves in IEC case
MK Party leader Jacob Zuma has requested that Constitutional Court justices recuse themselves from the matter between ...
IN PICS | Global Citizen’s young artists encourage youth to vote using ...
With about half the global population living in countries going to the polls this year, Global Citizen’s Young Artists ...
RECORDED | Zuma's eligibility to run for public office heard by ConCourt
The Constitutional Court is on Friday hearing the Electoral Commission of South Africa vs Electoral Court case about ...
Law enforcement on high alert and will deal firmly with illegal activity ...
The Gauteng legislature's portfolio committee on community safety has expressed confidence in law enforcement ...
WATCH | Bhekisisa: Does your party take health seriously? Use this tool to ...
Governments have the power to decide whether people live or die when it comes to health — and your vote will determine ...
MARCEL NAGAR | South Africa’s public service is dysfunctional — the five ...
Over the past 30 years, public servants have not been able to put into practice the policies designed to end poverty, ...
Rise Mzansi takes its fight to the Durban streets
The party’s list of demands includes sufficient and safe water supply, more jobs in the water sector and the scrapping ...
The right of a person to vote freely in democratic elections, to express him or herself without hindrance, to gather and associate as one wishes, to move freely in one’s land – these are precious freedoms that lift the human spirit and give expression to our God-given rights.Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
OPINION & ANALYSIS
EDITORIAL | DA’s ‘flag’ advert becomes a burning election issue
The DA must be careful its insistence on being right does not gift the ANC majority by stealth
TOM EATON | DA’s flag-burning advert dumber than a bag of hammers
I expect politicians to say some crazy stuff before an election, but not to see a party explain that the country will ...
OLIVER DICKSON | Both the ANC and DA are stoking fires that burn SA's ...
Not quite a brilliant campaign but the message is quite clear — our dreams are up in flames
TOM EATON | The ANC channels its inner Baldrick and has a cunning plan
From roping in Thabo Mbeki to asking diplomats to break the law, this too shall pass
Time of dead snakes, wolves and sheep
You know a battle is really on when ANC head honchos start talking of each other in animalistic terms.
MMUSI MAIMANE | Bosa is the umbrella under which all can unite and thrive
Vision, ideas and needs are central, not identity, writes Mmusi Maimane.
MAT CUTHBERT | A revitalised, nonracial DA is set to catch voters
The DA circa 2019 was trying to out-ANC the ANC, playing the dangerous game of identity politics rather than setting ...
EDITORIAL | Dialogue has saved our country before, and can do so again
The post-1994 national arrangement has come under increasing strain, affecting social cohesion and jeopardising the ...
Mampara of the week: Makhosi Khoza
This week’s Mampara was once highly regarded as an anti-corruption crusader who resigned from the ANC in protest ...
LINDIWE MAZIBUKO | Young new voters need to see ticks turn into jobs
Young new voters need to see ticks turn into jobs, writes Lindiwe Mazibuko.
BARNEY MTHOMBOTHI | Ramaphosa has appeased Zuma for years, allowing the ...
And now he’s turned the guns on them, so to speak, delivering some of the most telling blows of any ANC critic, writes ...
PETER BRUCE | The fear factor and a desperate hunt for friends
As is the case everywhere, South African politics hover between a triad of indifference, confidence and, mainly, ...
TOM EATON | Eskom’s sudden generosity might be the ANC’s light at the end ...
The past five weeks may brighten the ANC’s prospects of dragging itself over to 51%
BHEKISISA OP-ED | Should your party save you from floods? Some voters ...
With 4.2-billion people in 50 countries — almost half the world’s population — voting for their next governments this ...
LUCKY MATHEBULA | What should we make of the uMkhonto we Sizwe trademark ...
The MK Party victory, from whatever angle you choose to relate with it, is the subversion of RSA heritage trapped in ...
TOM EATON | Illuminati or just nutty? Five weeks until the polls and it’s ...
Whether politicians have spoken to God or secret societies, peculiar beliefs will flourish
TOM EATON | KZN voters need to choose wisely — they face the possibility ...
Predicting the outcomes of elections is difficult unless they’re happening in Russia or Zimbabwe
ONKGOPOTSE JJ TABANE | The IEC is endangering the upcoming poll
Why is the IEC testing fate and in the process endangering an election as historic as the May 29 poll?
TOM EATON | Fly your flag, Msholozi — I want to see who salutes
Zuma and the MK party present a perfect opportunity to check whether liberal assumptions about the popularity of ...
TOM EATON | Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake
The DA has unintentionally invited the ANC, EFF and MK to join it in wrenching the election away from the calm ...
EDITORIAL | Give Hlabisa a chance, let him be on all IFP campaign material
IFP seems to be struggling in these elections to move on from founder Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi
TOM EATON | Trying to swallow the alphabet soup of political parties
Every party to its own, the lead up to the elections promises different strokes for different folks
JJ TABANE | Can the DA rescue SA and free itself from its white-party ...
John Steenhuisen has opened the door for the ANC to partner with the EFF, resulting in the very ‘doomsday scenario’ he ...
EDITORIAL | Our forefathers fought hard for the privilege to vote, don’t ...
If you are unhappy with where you find yourself in South Africa today, use your vote to send a message
TOM EATON | Stand by for strange, unhinged statements ahead of the ...
Anyone who believes the EFF could administer a R100bn sovereign wealth fund for the good of all South Africans is ...
On May 29, we cannot allow ourselves to fall silent. This is the day South Africa will go to the polls for the 2024 national and provincial elections, as announced by the presidency on Tuesday, after consultations with the Independent Electoral Commission. It is the day on which every South African 18 and older should make their voice heard.TimesLIVE Premium Editorial
LISTEN ARTICLES
LISTEN | Vote, don’t sip: Malema says no drunkards on May 29
EFF leader Julius Malema says voters should not be tempted by alcohol on election day but prioritise the polls.
LISTEN | Western Cape led by 'witches', says Mbalula, 'give ANC a chance'
Western Cape must vote ANC or miss out on ANC-government benefits, says party's secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula.
LISTEN | Let's get criminals out of the ANC: Mbeki has not buried the ...
Former ANC president Thabo Mbeki says he has not put his grievances aside with the party, which “will have to get the ...
LISTEN | Malema changes tune on vote rigging as elections loom
EFF leader Julius Malema claims load-shedding will be implemented when vote counting starts and votes will be stolen.
PODCAST | Zuma is out for revenge and has nothing to lose
Zuma feels wronged by corruption allegations, is out for revenge against his successor and will wreak havoc, we hear in ...
LISTEN | 'Whoever becomes president must not have a bloated cabinet' — ...
Chris Hani's widow Limpho says whoever becomes president after the May 29 general elections should not have a bloated ...
LISTEN | Malema prepared to offer EFF votes to ANC but with one condition ...
With less than two months to go before the May 29 elections, EFF leader Julius Malema says he is prepared to give the ...