South Africa's ruling African National Congress party finds itself in uncharted political territory as it approaches national and provincial elections on May 29. Accustomed for so long to operating in a comfort zone of one-party dominance,

For the first time in 30 years, South Africa’s governing party faces an electoral crisis with expectations that its support will dramatically reduce and it may lose its parliamentary majority in this month’s election.

Jacob Zuma, who led South Africa for almost nine scandal-ridden years before the ruling party forced him from office, has staged a dramatic comeback and is shaking up politics before this month’s elections.

Many of the 1.5 million members of South Africa’s largest trade union federation COSATU will support the governing African National Congress in the 29 May election. This, despite the federation in previous years complaining that the ANC only uses them as ‘voting fodder’ and ignores their demands between elections.

Jacob Zuma has reemerged onto the political stage with a new party, shaking up the landscape ahead of the upcoming elections.

South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma is running a visible and noisy campaign for May's elections against his former party, the ruling African National Congress (ANC), another bump on a difficult road for the historical post-apartheid party.