The Democratic Alliance has quit the deputy chairmanship of the Western Cape’s public accounts committee in protest against what it says is African National Congress manipulation.
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT (UDM) president Bantu Holomisa on Friday accused the African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) of holding Parliament hostage over the Immigration Bill.
A jubilant New National Party on Tuesday morning produced the defectors it needs to wrest control of the City of Cape Town from the Democratic Alliance.
Democratic Alliance fundraiser Leon Markovitz, who received about R450 000 in cash from an anonymous man, told the Desai Commission in Cape Town on Thursday he was still unable to identify the mystery donor.
The Cape Times newspaper was ordered to pay a businessman R100 000 in damages, plus interest, after the Cape High Court dismissed its parent company’s application for leave to appeal against the award.
Three political parties have expressed concern and outrage about the use of the slogan ”Kill the Boer, kill the farmer” at the funeral of the African National Congress MP Peter Mokaba.
The Cape Peninsula National Park’s efforts to create a unified park stretching from Signal Hill to Cape Point has received a major boost with the acquisition of an additional 2 282 hectares of land.
The Cape Town Regional Court jailed a pensioner for three years on Tuesday after he lied under oath while testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
A document in which Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel allegedly asks a Swiss trustee of Jurgen Harksen’s affairs for money emerged at the Desai Commission on Wednesday.
The class action lawsuit against various banks and corporations that ”profiteered” from apartheid will start in New York on August 9, said the leader of the legal team leader, US attorney Ed Fagan.
The Cape High Court on Friday reserved judgement in German fugitive Jurgen Harksen’s appeal against extradition to Germany, where he is wanted on embezzlement charges.
Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel has been questioned by the investigative unit, the Scorpions, his representative Kylie Hatton confirmed on Tuesday.
In-fighting within the UDM in the Western Cape reached new heights on Saturday with the provincial executive suspending some members, just as branches were set to meet to vote in new leadership in the province.
The Democratic Alliance is set on ruffling Western Cape premier and New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk’s feathers with a giant chicken that will shadow his every public appearance for the next two weeks.
A former associate of German fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen has told the Desai commission that he wrote out a half-a-million rand cheque as a donation for the Democratic Alliance on Harksen’s instructions.
A total of 20 692 awaiting trial prisoners were in South Africa’s overcrowded jails because they were unable to afford even low bail amounts.
Rapid population growth, wars and high levels of national debt, disasters and disease have all taken their toll on the people and the rich natural environment of Africa over the past thirty years.
South Africa is calling an emergency meeting of the state-owned rail corporation and its major customers to investigate and find solutions for logjams undermining exports.
Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel on Monday apologised for the harm caused by the Jurgen Harksen funding affair but continued to deny he received money from the German fugitive and alleged fraudster.
The Constitutional Court on Friday denied the government leave to appeal against a high court order compelling it to provide anti-Aids drugs in state hospitals.
Police are investigating a bizarre case of indecent assault after a man looking for a job was abducted, beaten up and forced to ejaculate at a house in Kraaifontein, Cape Town.
Democratic Alliance MPL Helen Zille will take the place of DA deputy leader Hennie Bester as the party’s leader in the Western Cape legislature.
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has played down the row over the United States’ delay in issuing a visa to mining boss Tokyo Sexwale.
Political parties represented on Parliament’s ethics committee were on Monday asked to oppose African National Congress (ANC) MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s legal action against Parliament.
The African National Congress in the Western Cape has accused the Democratic Alliance of hypocrisy and failing a moral test.
There was a danger that quality could be sacrificed at the altar of speed and quantity as South Africa tried to speed up its land restitution process, National Land Commissioner Dr Wallace Mgoqi said on Wednesday.
The common origin of all humanity argued against all systems and practices that discriminate against any human being, said President Thabo Mbeki.
Court papers will be served on two top New National Party officials in Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon’s defamation lawsuit against them, Leon’s office confirmed.
The Cape High Court on Monday was told of an early morning telephone call by Marike de Klerk’s alleged killer to his security control room to inform his employers he was going to a doctor.
All John Kilgore’s good behaviour since his Symbionese
Liberation Army (SLA) days could not absolve him of his debt to society, a son of SLA victim Myrna Opsahl said on Thursday.
The Western Cape government is to spend a total of R142-million — of its total cost of R582-million — on the new foreshore convention centre being built in the Mother City, according to Finance MEC Ebrahim Rasool.
MPs and activists opposed to abortion on Tuesday complained that two-day public hearings in Parliament on the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (CTOP Act) was biased and excluded those who did not agree with it.