Understanding South Africa’s 2019 General Election and what it means for Business

More than 17-million South Africans went to the polls on 8 May 2019, giving Cyril Ramaphosa’s African National Congress a 57 percent majority to govern the continent’s most industrialised economy. FTI Consulting unpacks the outcomes of the most critical election since Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s first democratically elected president in 1994 – and what the sixth general election means for political and policy certainty in the country.