South Africa's May 29 general election will likely usher in a new era of coalition governments, with President Cyril Ramaphosa likely to govern with the support of smaller, mostly centrist parties. South Africa will hold general elections on May 29, during which voters will elect the National Assembly's 400 lawmakers, as well as the country's nine provincial legislatures. The election is set to be South Africa's most competitive since the end of apartheid in 1994, with polling showing that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party is likely to lose its parliamentary majority. Other leading parties in the contest include the center-right Democratic Alliance (DA), the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and former president Jacob Zuma's new uMkhonto we Sizwe, or MK, party....
