Athol Trollip
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MPs recommend an ad hoc parliament committee to investigate Mkhwanazi’s allegations
A formal recommendation is expected to be tabled in the National Assembly next Wednesday
Budget scrapes through the National Assembly after DA revolt
The Democratic Alliance now plans to challenge the fiscal framework in court, further raising the tension around its future in the ruling coalition
IFP deputy president Inkosi Mzamo Buthelezi say the party is willing to go into coalition with ANC and EFF
Multi party coalition member are split on how they will handle a failure to get more than 50% of the vote
ANC’s message to medical aid users: Stop ‘resistance’ to R200bn NHI plan
Deputy Minister Parks Tau reiterated the government’s stance that medical aid tax breaks will be forfeited to fund the proposed universal health care plan
ActionSA’s Trollip says EFF wants Shivambu as finance minister so they can ‘steal’
The ActionSA Eastern Cape chairperson said coalitions had become transactional deals to satisfy politics of the stomach
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Andile Lungisa to testify for state in graft case
Three former Democratic Alliance councillors were allegedly paid R100 000 each for helping to oust mayor Athol Trollip
DA FedCo meeting dominated by talk of Malema
John Steenhuisen told party leaders that the 2024 elections would be a fight between the DA and EFF
Steenhuisen not guaranteed first bite at president position in moonshot pact, Trollip says
The Democratic Alliance’s coalition agreement needs to reach its targeted 51% if it is to have any success in the 2024 elections
Schweizer-Reneke saga comes back to bite DA leaders
Internal report finds former youth leader Luyolo Mphithi not to blame for party’s response to Schweizer-Reneke school ‘racist’ incident
Steenhuisen names DA’s mayoral candidates and challenges ANC to do the same
DA leader John Steenhuisen challenges ANC to share its list of mayoral candidates during the main opposition party’s own big metro candidate list-reveal
Ntuli joins the race to ‘save the DA’
KZN MPL’s letter to members says the DA is in ‘permanent damage control’ and she won’t watch as the party ‘disappears into oblivion’
Jozi jetsam floating in Durbs
It’s an annual thing but perhaps the invading army’s numbers have been boosted by about five DA councillors
Steenhuisen promises team work
The likely interim leader of the DA says he wants to listen to members who may leave following Mmusi Maimane’s resignation
Mashaba’s xenophobic legacy
The outgoing mayor’s tweet about the arrest statistics of migrants displays both his bigotry and a misunderstanding of how crime and policing work