The party’s federal executive has authorised a motion of no confidence in Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille, the party announced on Wednesday.
The DA document was meant to serve as a means of direction to the Hawks and the NPA to investigate the Estina allegations
If Zille is charged, it will be the second time in a year that she will be investigated for violating the DA’s social media policy
"Day Zero can be avoided if all of us become positive and move beyond politics and appreciate that the realities of climate change are upon us.
Major problems confront a party that was once confident of seriously damaging the ANC in 2019
The hangover from Brian Molefe’s controversial resignation and attempted reinstatement at Eskom may not be over.
"She should acknowledge her personal and direct responsibility for this terrible tragedy rather than blaming officials as scapegoats."
Eskom has been in a leadership crisis after several board members, including the chairman and chief executive, resigned in 2017.
Before voting, De Lille raised objections with the amendment, admitting she had not been consulted.
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DA federal executive chairperson James Selfe on Thursday said that Zuma now needs to clarify the scope of the probe.
"They are using the drought crisis as a cash cow," said the leader of the opposition in the council, Xolani Sotashe
The firm maintains its lobbying work is entirely separate from its crisis communications work and will not influence City of Cape Town policy.
"To claim that the SIU is not allowed to run the investigations they have been doing for years would mean that all other specialist units should stop"
Rabelani Dagada has also been suspended as a councillor by the opposition party’s FedEx pending an inquiry of the DA’s federal legal commission.
This comes after months of serious claims and counterclaims between the City of Cape Town and De Lille.
This comes following months of serious claims and counterclaims, involving allegations of intimidation, criminality and misconduct
The DA’s Federal Executive Council will meet on Sunday "to thoroughly engage with all aspects of the allegations against De Lille".
Cape Town’s mayor thinks the allegations against her are part of a plot to oust her
The Constitutional Court ruled that MPs have six months to put impeachment procedures in place.
The recommendation will now be taken to the DA’s provincial and federal leadership, which will have to make a decision on how to act on the matter.
De Lille is seeking legal advice on the report which she says contains errors that were never rectified, despite her having pointed them out.
De Lille said she had requested the firm to amend the report, and some of their findings, based on factual errors she had pointed out
Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille says the Democratic Alliance (DA) does not have sufficient reason to remove her
Democratic Alliance (DA) national spokesperson Phumzile Van Dame released a media statement on Thursday officially suspending De Lille.
Judgement is expected on the DA’s application for an order that President Zuma adhere to the Public Protector’s ‘State of Capture’ remedial actions
In a move to fill vacant posts in Public Health and Corporate Services, Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Athol Trollip announced changes to his committee.
Readers write in about the need for a new social movement, and the ANC succession debate
Divisions within the City of Cape Town are becoming even more apparent after spatial development policies received resistance.
Tense relations between the DA and smaller opposition parties have threatening the opposition’s hopes of assuming power nationally in 2019
Brian Molefe now contends he never left Eskom and so, legally, he should be allowed to return to the office and position that is rightfully his
The worst-performing municipalities were found in the Free State and North West which had huge liquidity shortfalls.