Bloomberg South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) has extended its quarter-century grip on political power and it largely has President Cyril Ramaphosa to thank for halting its decline. The ANC won 57.3% of the votes cast in the national elections, official tallies from 90% of the voting stations show. The party looked to be in danger of losing its majority ...

At a time when America is facing a potential military confrontation with Iran, an escalating trade war with China and a showdown with North Korea, you’d think President Trump would want a permanent secretary of defense to oversee Pentagon plans. But Patrick Shanahan is still cooling his heels as acting secretary, awaiting a formal nomination that was expected nearly two ...

The forthcoming European parliamentary election was meant to be Facebook Inc.’s big chance to please a constituency that trashes it on a regular basis: Politicians. After all of controversy around fake news on website and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company hired the former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to help clean up its act. The social network has ...