Melber, Henning2015-06-232015-06-232014Melber, H 2014, 'South Africa's elections 2014 : and the winner is?', GIGA Focus, vol.1, no. 8, pp. 1-8.2196-3940http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45673On 7 May 2014, less than half a year after the death of Nelson Mandela, South Africans democratically elected for the fourth time since 1994 the country’s national parliament and the various provincial governments. In a generally relaxed climate, all seemed well in the rainbow nation. Most parties welcomed the announced results. But do they and the South African people now have cause for optimism?enGIGA Focus is an Open Access publication. It may be read, copied and distributed free of charge according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.Parliamentary electionsProvincial electionsPolitical partiesSouth Africa (SA)African National Congress (ANC)Democratic Alliance (DA)Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)Article