ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba calls on residents to support him
Sources inside the DA say that MP and finance spokesperson Geordin Hill-Lewis will likely be named as candidate for Cape Town ahead of the incumbent, Dan Plato.
The young politician made Midvaal local municipality a model of clean governance and public service
The DA’s factional battles will take centre stage when the party selects a new mayoral candidate for the city of Cape Town
Magashule has received at least five letters from ANC caucus members unhappy with the chief whip’s backing of a vote against the public protector
The official opposition’s leader John Steenhuisen has called its mission to slash the ANC voter share unrealistic during a parliamentary meeting, as the party deals with financial challenges
and a fresh round of staff retrenchments
Democratic Alliance drags the government to court, demanding a Covid-19 vaccination rollout plan.
Parties forced to adapt to the ‘new normal’ as ANC’s anti-corruption drive delivers dividends
Interacting with the opposition’s leaders is enough to drive one to paranoia, giggles, perhaps even to the Freedom Front
Stocktake at the end of a momentous year shows that the ruling party holds all the cards but has little room for manoeuvre
Senior Ekurhuleni councillor Shabangu purchased a Ford SUV from an alleged R1.2-million kickback
The party has allegedly ignored reports of kickbacks and claims of sexual harassment to protect a top councillor
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The president was answering questions before parliament, where he also told the EFF to allow the courts to decide on the matter of the CR17 bank statements
In this week’s by-elections, the ANC has the highest number of wards being contested. However, the turnout in some communities in areas in the Vaal district has been low — even after the electoral commission said it was ready to welcome voters
If supporters do it for democracy — and not to gain favour — then it needn’t be secret
Dudu Myeni is out of favour, an interim leader becomes The Permanent One, and Meyiwa’s killers ‘found’
But high court rules in favour of the eThekwini municipality, as judge decries ‘political point-scoring’
MPs can’t seem to stop the house from degenerating into screaming matches, even during virtual sittings, as exhibited when the deputy president answered questions in the NCOP on Wednesday.
It was a landslide victory for John Steenhuisen, who thanked his family and opponent Mbali Ntuli before characteristically tearing into the ANC-led government for its anti-liberal policies, numerous failures, megalomania, and rampant corruption.
John Steenhuisen and Mbali Ntuli both acknowledged the problems faced by the party over the past year, with each of them offering their own leadership vision.
The party and AfriForum staged protests outside the magistrate’s court during the bail application by two men accused of killing a farm manager in the eastern Free State
In response to Ryno Geldenhuys’s piece Under Mbali Ntuli the DA would offer South Africans a new political home, published in the Mail & Guardian on 13 October
With reference to Eusebius McKaiser “The DA’s next leader should have a diverse political toolkit” (Mail&Guardian, September 23)
We’ve tried leftism for long enough and what we have to show for it is corruption and mismanagement, when what we need is jobs and education. Is it time to try out a Mashaba-esque version of right-wing politics?
But in the battle of John and Mbali, the way things are going, the party will crucify the better option
The leader of the new One South Africa Movement says his former party has set itself on a course away from multiracialism after its recent policy conference
The official opposition said current ANC policies to undo historic economic injustices have only benefited an elite few
The DA says former Gauteng leader John Moodey resigned from the party amid allegations that he was conspiring against fellow party members ahead of crucial party meetings
The DA is stuck in classical liberalism when there are new ways of thinking about capitalism and the role of the state – and its denial of race as a concept is disingenuous
With coalition politics on the rise, particularly in local government, this kind of court case is likely to become more common
The DA, the governing party in the Western Cape, has offered the chairpersonship of Scopa in the provincial legislature to the ANC
Based on projections, if the ANC continues on its 2016 trajectory, the party could have to go into coalitions in Johannesburg and in Tshwane