A political party, but as the president of south africa. this is important at the moment because the people party is contesting these results, especially the former presidentjacob zuma, who has urged the electoral commission not to go on with the declaration this afternoon, he is warning, he says, of trouble, he says he will take the iec to court. in the midst of that, the statement from the president will be really important for south africa today. will be really important for south africa today- africa today. and it is also going to be really africa today. and it is also going to be really important africa today. and it is also going to be really importantjust - africa today. and it is also going to be really importantjust to - to be really importantjust to understand where this places the anc because as you say, they will need to get into conversations with the other parties, but we know that jacob zuma, the ex presidentjacob zuma s party did much better than expected, and they will not go into talks with president ramaphosa how do you square that circle? w , . circle? exactly. the current president circle? exactly. the current president and circle? exactly. the current president and the - circle? exactly. the current president and the former . circle? exactly. the current - president and the former president are at loggerheads. the former
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Its majority, now has to possibly form a coalition government with other opposition parties. now the stage is set here for the electoral commission to announce and declare the results of the national elections as well as provincial elections. but there are underlying tensions in south africa at the moment, and that s because the powerful, influential former president, jacob zuma, has urged the electoral commission not to announce the results today. he says his party and a few others are contesting the results that are shown on the board just behind me. they say they need more time to raise those objections, but it s important to say there hasn t been any clear evidence as to what those objections are. nevertheless, the electoral commission says even though they have those comments there from the former president, they will go ahead to declare these results. and we re also expecting the current president, cyril ramaphosa, to be here, also reacting to these results. of course, those have been terrible results for his party.
He presided over a period of rampant corruption. now he s making a comeback. the anc is still the biggest party, but it needs to find partners to share power. south africa now faces weeks of turbulent coalition talks. barbara plett usher, bbc news, johannesburg. 0ur correspondent catherine byaru hanga is injohannesburg with the latest. usually when you have these official results from the electoral commission, people really know what the final declaration is likely to be. we do expect the ruling african national congress party to lose its majority in south africa s parliament. and this really is an historic moment for south africa. after 30 years in power, the ruling anc is about to lose
Do. thank you for your time and analysis today, sir. thank you. thank you for having me. federal officials considering regulating ai generated content was certain political ads ahead of the election. high-ranking regulator blasting the proposal as politically motivated. senior national correspondent rich had said has the story. from this ai generated republican national committee add to an ai generated democratic national committee song making fun of rnc cochair. political campaigns are embracing artificial intelligence. we will see the big wave of these ads coming out right before the election. before candidates really have a chance to say hey, i never did that. the commission is considering a rule that would require political advertisers to disclose when they use artificial intelligence on
The mk party said it would only work with the party if cyril ramaphosa stepped down. 0ur correspondent catherine byaru hanga is injohannesburg with the latest. usually when you have these results, people know what the final declaration will be. do we do expect the ruling african national congress party to lose its majority in the south african parliament and this really is a historic moment for south africa, after 30 years in power, the ruling anc is about to lose its majority, and now has to possibly form a coalition government with other opposition parties. the stage is now set for the electoral commission to announce and declare the results of the national as well as provincial elections. there is underlying tensions in south africa at the moment, and that is because the powerful, influentialformer presidentjacob zuma has urged the electoral commission not to announce the results today. he says his party
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It has made huge inroads in areas like gauteng province where i am and kwazulu natal. it s written to the electoral commission raising objections about the final tally. why this is important is because these are some of the most populous regions in south africa with huge vote counts. we re still waiting to hear from the electoral commission of how it s going to handle these objections. as you said, it is waiting until sunday to publish the final results because what usually happens is it will take the next few hours to meet with different parties, look over the results and then make a decision as to whether those objections will determine and change the final result that s in front of us. but really, we are waiting to hear from the anc itself as to how it s going to react to what looks like a significant loss in its vote share. much more on that election on our