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The Multi-Party Charter (MPC), officially the Multi-Party Charter For South Africa (MPCSA), formerly known as the Moonshot Pact, is a pre-election agreement in South Africa that aims to present a united front in the 2024 South African general election against the three-decade rule of the African National Congress (ANC) and the recent rise of the controversial Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF ...
Songezo Zibi (born 27 December 1975) is the National Leader of the political party, Rise Mzansi.He is a corporate spokesperson and manager, writer, former Associate Editor of the Financial Mail, and former Editor of Business Day, South Africa’s leading business and economy daily newspaper.
The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa is South Africa's legislature; under the present Constitution of South Africa, the bicameral Parliament comprises a National Assembly and a National Council of Provinces. The current twenty-seventh Parliament was first convened on 22 May 2019.
The deputy president is generally appointed as the leader of government business in the Parliament of South Africa by the president. Under the interim constitution (valid from 1994 to 1996), there was a Government of National Unity , in which a member of parliament from the largest opposition party was entitled to a position as deputy president.
History Main article: History of the Democratic Alliance (South Africa) Helen Suzman Harry Schwarz Helen Suzman and Harry Schwarz, who were prominent anti-apartheid campaigners during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s Beginnings in the Democratic Party Although the Democratic Alliance in its present form is fairly new, its roots can be traced far back in South African political history, through a ...
Rise Mzansi's campaign slogan for the general elections is "2024 Is Our 1994", in reference to South Africa's first democratic elections. In April 2023, Rise Mzansi rejected calls to join the Democratic Alliance -initiated "Moonshot Pact" (later Multi-Party Charter ) of opposition parties on the grounds that the pact is solely based on removing ...
The Union of South Africa was created on 31 May 1910 by the South Africa Act 1909, an act of the British Parliament. The House of Assembly (the lower house of the newly created Parliament of South Africa) and the provincial councils were elected by first-past-the-post voting in single-member electoral divisions. The franchise in these elections ...
Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) is an independent association that represents the interests of major corporations in South Africa. Members include large South African companies and multinational corporations with a significant presence in South Africa. Founded in 1959 as the South African Foundation, it rebranded as BLSA in November 2005.