File: Former South African president Thabo Mbeki. AFP/Gianluigi Guercia

File: South African President Jacob Zuma (C) addresses members of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), a new opposition party that has become a potential upsetter in the South Africa May 29 election, outside the High Court in Johannesburg on April 11, 2024. 

IFP President Velinkosi Hlabisa.

ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa in Gugulethu.

File: Cyril Ramaphosa, South African President, and president of the ruling African National Congress (ANC in Athlone, near Cape Town, on May 1, 2024.