TimesLIVE reported on Nov. 8 that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has considered resigning from his position as leader of the left-leaning African National Congress, or ANC, following the party's setback in the country's Nov. 4 municipal elections, though Ramaphosa and other high-ranking ANC officials thereafter rejected those claims. Separately, Bloomberg reported on Nov. 9 that figures within the ANC's National Executive Committee, the party's top organ, were looking to make a case at an upcoming meeting reportedly scheduled for Nov. 12 that Ramaphosa should remove the center-right Democratic Alliance, or DA, from government and replace it with the right-leaning ActionSA, which would nominally leave the government with a five-seat majority in parliament.