South Africa’s 400 parliamentarians are about to get down to business: 4 essential reads

By Caroline Southey, Founding Editor
Jabulani Sikhakhane, Editor, The Conversation Africa
Thabo Leshilo, Politics + Society

On 29 May 2024 South Africans went to the polls and delivered a strong message to their political leaders: we’re tired of the “same old same old”.

They slashed the governing African National Congress’s share of the vote to just over 40%. And put their crosses next to a host of some old – and some new – opposition parties.

The general election outcome triggered weeks of high-wire negotiations as parties jockeyed to be part of a coalition government to…

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