The Democratic Alliance’s federal congress must decide not only who should lead the party during the critical phase in the democratic evolution, but how it should be led, and with what strategic objectives
Nearly 2 000 delegates will vote in a new leadership to take the party into the 2024 elections
The Russian leader has more chance of being arrested at home than he does in Mzansi
Will the official opposition consider doing business with the ANC after the 2024 elections?
Party insiders worry that Democratic Alliance federal council chair Helen Zille has centralised powers as the party has not had a chief executive for two years
The former Eskom chief executive has accepted an invitation to make submissions to the standing committee on public accounts
Brink called for cooperation between parties, characterising the past weeks at the Tshwane council as unfortunate
The wannabe leader has asked the DA leader why the party was critical of the government’s ministerial handbook when its politicians also live in state house
However, minister Angie Motshekga says the department is fast tracking the improvement of infrastructure at schools
Incumbent DA leader takes legal steps after former Johannesburg mayor’s campaign manager allegedly reported that he used donor funding for his benefit
The majority had made a decision and that was how democracy worked, the deputy president told the National Assembly
The party’s Tshwane metro contingent appears to have been asleep during councillor induction
The police service has said the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure is ready to deal with any criminality on 20 March
Just 156 green jobs out of a target of 1 120 were created in 2021-022 financial year
The South African National Taxi Council says its members can decide if they want to take part in the national shutdown planned for 20 March
DA gets confirmation from Sars that ‘dirty dollars’ hidden inside couch on the president’s Phala Phala farm were not declared to tax agency
The party says the committee should have the power to summons witnesses
DA calls former Eskom chief executive De Ruyter ‘brave’, thanks him for his service
Power utility says the high court challenge to the increase is flawed in law, and could mean more load-shedding, or worse, a credit default
Current chairperson hopes to take over from Nqaba Bhanga when the DA elects provincial leaders – and to deliver an upset in the 2024 election
Political rhetoric can’t plaster over the city’s divides and rewrite its haunted past
Illegal land occupation and alleged corruption plague the city’s unstable administrations
The party believes it has been able to ‘self-correct’ after alienating white voters in the previous national and provincial elections
An internal report implicates Maimane as the mastermind in a plan to rid the party of its white leaders, thereby alienating white voters
Internal report finds former youth leader Luyolo Mphithi not to blame for party’s response to Schweizer-Reneke school ‘racist’ incident
Although the city seems to be stabilising politically, it is heading for an uncertain financial future
In closing the debate on his State of the Nation address, the president said the country was not abandoning coal as a major power source
DA leader says voters face a clear choice in next year’s national polls after president lost the opportunity to pull back from the brink
Embattled mayor had been under pressure over the city’s adverse audit opinion in 2021-2022
The presidency has described the decision by the Democratic Alliance (DA) to challenge the declaration of a national state of disaster over Eskom as “confusing” given that the party had been asking the president to do so since last year. DA leader John Steenhuisen confirmed on Friday that the party had already briefed its legal […]
But the municipality has laid the blame for the filthy state of Tembisa at the feet of the community
The former mayor says the ‘culture of fear’ in the party needs to be dealt with and it needs to be more honest about its links with the EFF