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/ 4 September 2009
Cosatu has dropped its Equality Court complaint against Western Cape Premier Helen Zille, saying it recognises her commitment to gender equality.
Cosatu on Friday backed off from its Equality Court demand that Western Cape Premier Helen Zille reconstitute her male-dominated cabinet.
The time is ripe for a public debate on the rights and responsibilities of people who turn to the state for medical care, DA leader Helen Zille says.
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille had hoped to have at least three other women in her cabinet, according to papers filed in the Equality Court.
Despite feisty election-time rhetoric, the majority of the smaller opposition parties in Parliament are beginning to warm to President Jacob Zuma.
Peace appears to be about to break out over the troubled N2 Gateway housing project.
South Africa’s collapsing school system is placing the nation at risk, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said in her weekly newsletter on Friday.
The first outcome of an ANC-friendly JSC is the decision to hold closed hearings on the dispute involving John Hlophe, DA leader Helen Zille says.
The ANC is trying to turn the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) into a ”thinly disguised party instrument”, DA leader Helen Zille said on Friday.
Bad management, not lack of funding, is the main reason for the deteriorating state of South Africa’s public health system, Helen Zille said on Friday
The National Youth Development Agency seems set to repeat the mistakes of previous government youth initiatives, DA leader Helen Zille says.
Helen Zille on Friday accused the ANC of using the transformation of the judiciary as a smokescreen for creating a bench that will serve its agenda.
In apartheid times Helen Zille enraged South Africa’s white rulers, and lately she has ruffled South Africa’s black political establishment.
Jacob Zuma should start transforming the public service by appointing the right people instead of political allies, Helen Zille said on Friday.
The ANC said on Monday that it welcomed the ”admittance of error” by Western Cape Premier Helen Zille on her males-only provincial cabinet.
‘I should have read the mood better,’ Conceded DA leader and Western Cape Premier Helen Zille in a frank interview with the Mail&Guardian this week
The DA will not be deterred by ”the ANC’s plans” to disempower it through an orchestrated campaign to make the Western Cape ”ungovernable”.
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille’s speech at the opening of the provincial legislature on Friday had been ”aggressive and triumphalist”, the ANC said.
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille says she has told President Jacob Zuma he should see the DA-controlled province as an opportunity, not as a threat.
It was not a good idea for Helen Zille to behave as if she was going to secede from South Africa, Baleka Mbete said on Wednesday night.
The MK Military Veterans’ Association is to march on Helen Zille’s office on Wednesday to demand that she apologise to President Jacob Zuma.
Helen Zille has defended her decision to hold her opening address in legislature before Jacob Zuma delivers his first State of the Nation address.
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille’s land conspiracy is misleading and just more hot air, the African National Congress said on Saturday.
The former ANC-run Western Cape administration approved transfer of land to the national government the day before the April 22 elections.
DA leader Helen Zille on Friday said sexism and misogyny were rife in South African society, and accused Jacob Zuma of setting a bad example.
Ferial Haffajee on Zille: while the ANC Youth League’s statements against her were pathetically patriarchal, so are her action and her words.
Helen Zille: the DA will increasingly focus on this hidden realm, which men claim women may not speak about.
DA leader Helen Zille had harsh words for the media on Friday for ”manufacturing a major row” this week between her and the ANC.
Several events this week showed that despite the alleged maturity of our democracy race and sex still define who we are and how we see ourselves.
DA leader Helen Zille named a national shadow cabinet on Thursday, and said her party would never subscribe to a ”narrative” on gender quotas.
Cope leader Allan Boesak has slammed the ”petty viciousness” of the row between Helen Zille and the African National Congress Youth League.
Women’s rights group Gender Links on Thursday ”deplored” both opposition leader Helen Zille and the ANC Youth League for their ”sexist slurs”.