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The New National Party leadership's decision to dissolve the party
and lay its ghost to rest immediately after the 90th anniversary of
the National Party in August, was unavoidable, President...
ADDRESS BY DEPUTY PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA AT THE TEN YEAR DEMOCRACY
CELEBRATION AND INAUGURATION OF WESTERN CAPE PREMIER, EBRAHIM
RASOOL, Khayelitsha Stadium, Cape Town
The African National Congress has won 279 of the 400 seats in the
National Assembly, and has for the first time also taken the
majority of seats in all nine provincial legislatures.
The New National Party was pragmatic on Thursday about the close
competition offered by the Independent Democrats (ID) in the
election in which traditionally Afrikaner parties have lost votes.
The African National Congress, having achieved just over 69 percent
of the votes captured by late morning, appeared set to enter the
National Assembly with between 223 and 257 of the 400 seats.
The respective strong showings of the African National Congress and
Democratic Alliance in Wednesday's general election may sharpen the
cold war between the two parties in future, independent...
The African National Congress had received more than two-thirds of
the votes counted by 12.40pm on Thursday. According to updated
preliminary election results, the party had received 4.99-million...