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
Soccer star Luke Fleurs' murder highlights government track record on ...
The ANC's election manifesto says it will modernise policing, develop capabilities to combat gang violence, and ...
GLOBAL CITIZEN | Large polluters should not be allowed to put profits ...
Voters going to the polls around the world must consciously hold their governments and leaders in the private sector ...
WATCH | Ramaphosa urges workers to ensure ANC outright majority
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has called on workers to ensure the ANC gets an outright majority at the polls later this ...
Lennit Max cries racism as he resigns from Freedom Front Plus
Former Western Cape police commissioner Lennit Max has resigned from the Freedom Front Plus (FF+), crying racism.
Zuma 'a wolf in a sheep's skin': Mbeki reflects on 30 years of freedom
Mbeki questioned why Zuma would be part of attempts to render ineffective Sars which was responsible for the majority ...
Mandela era employed cadres but Zuma did cronyism: Thuli Madonsela
Cadre deployment is different from cronyism, which means the appointment of relatives, friends and associates to ...
DA will bring peace to Nelson Mandela Bay — Steenhuisen
DA leader’s speech focused on tackling violent crime and gangsterism in the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality.
POLL | Did MK Party forge signatures it handed to IEC during candidate ...
Will the MK Party survive the signature forgery allegations?
Electoral Court ‘deeply fractured’ in its interpretation of Zuma/MK case: ...
Electoral Commission asks apex court to resolve split in Electoral Court's thinking in new court papers
Zuma daughter gives expelled MK Party's Jabulani Khumalo 'love back' ...
MK Party founder Jabulani Khumalo's attempts to mend fences with Jacob Zuma after he was expelled from the party last ...
IEC calls for speedy probe of MK Party’s alleged fraudulent signatures
The Electoral Commission of South Africa has called for police to expedite their investigation into reports Jacob ...
DA hits back at Cosatu, calling it an 'enemy of the unemployed'
The DA has accused labour federation Cosatu of being an enemy of unemployed South Africans after its rejection of the ...
Despite past oppression we move forward with optimism: Ramaphosa
The task of national reconciliation embarked on in 1994 was as much about liberating white South Africans from the ...
PODCAST | 'It's time for a woman president' – Senathi Fisha
Thirty years on and with the country battling, it's high time for a woman president to take the helm, says All Citizens ...
Police investigate break-in at IEC provincial offices in Johannesburg
Police are investigating a burglary at the Electoral Commission of South Africa's provincial offices in Houghton, ...
Elections countdown goes TikTok for politicians
Most of the election contenders are focusing on social media platforms as the direct way to catch the soul (or eyes) of ...
Government warns of zero tolerance for people behaving badly on social ...
The government on Sunday warned it would be keeping a close eye on social media and would not hesitate to take action ...
Electoral Court gives reasons in MK Party, Zuma elections case
Court says ex-president was not 'sentenced' within the meaning of the constitution
DA outlines economic plan to create 2-million jobs in five years
The DA unveiled its economic policy, the first in 10 years, which it says is the correct pathway to "unleash ...
POLL | Did Thabo Mbeki join the election campaign trail too late?
The ANC deployed former president Thabo Mbeki to Soweto to campaign for the May elections, but is it too little too ...
WATCH | Bhekisisa: Corruption trap – Why healthcare fraud costs you money
Four in 10 South Africans say corruption is one of the top three things on their minds when deciding where they’ll put ...
Zuma, MK Party given until Tuesday to file papers in IEC application
The Constitutional Court has granted former president Jacob Zuma and his uMkhonto we Sizwe Party until next Tuesday to ...
MK Party will save black people and bring them real freedom: Jacob Zuma
'We want African law here. We are not Dutch. We are not Roman'
Mbeki says vote ANC, but ask what went wrong in last few years
Former president Thabo Mbeki was drumming up support for the ANC at Soweto's Jabulani Mall
IN PICS | Thabo Mbeki on the campaign trail in Soweto
Former ANC president Thabo Mbeki has returned to the campaign trail in Soweto, making an appearance at Jabulani Mall ...
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
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 | Western Cape led by 'witches', says ...
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: ...
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 ...