# The ANC loses its parliamentary majority in the 2024 general election Date: 2024 ## The fact On 29 May 2024 the ANC won about 40 percent, losing its [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) majority for the first time since 1994. GNU formation is a child. ## Context Load-shedding and Phala Phala sat as parent weather. Neighbouring 14 June Assembly election of the president is a child. He did not sit as the IEC. 2019 election is a parent. GNU 2024 is a child. The President of South Africa heads the national executive, appoints Cabinet, and assents to bills. He does not write an Eskom generation print, an NPA charging decision, a DA court challenge, or a US executive order by himself. Phala Phala cash in a sofa is not a completed criminal verdict unless a court so holds. ## Evidence and sources IEC carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed certified loss of one-party majority. ## What is established and what is not Established: 29 May 2024 IEC result, independently reported. Not established: a unique later kWh coefficient from that Wednesday, or that the GNU was thereby completed that night. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. He was ANC president and incumbent.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The ANC loses its parliamentary majority in the 2024 general election, not a later speech about The ANC loses its parliamentary majority in the 2024 general election. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The ANC loses its parliamentary majority in the 2024 general election on 2024-05-29 is not a licence to treat every later IEC communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The ANC loses its parliamentary majority in the 2024 general election into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Voters and IEC certified. He was ANC president and incumbent. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Cyril Ramaphosa: https://factrail.ai/people/cyril-ramaphosa ## Drivers - Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience - Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-anc-loses-parliamentary-majority-first-time-30-years-2024-05-31/ - https://www.elections.org.za/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/za-election-2024