The DA is evading to address the issue of whether secret Freemasonry membership can mix with transparent candidate list procedures.
If there are hung local councils after the August 3 elections, minnow parties could play kingmakers.
Alleged ties to freemasonry and other conflicts have caused red faces in the Democratic Alliance ahead of municipal elections.
Businessman and DA mayoral candidate Herman Mashaba said this week that he couldn’t wait to win the Jo’burg mayor’s office and transform the city.
“It’s Freedom Day and then you have this kind of political intolerance,” said DA councillor Heinz De Boer.
Last week President Jacob Zuma said that letters of reprimand were sent to the ministers accused of misconduct with regards to Nkandla.
The DA revealed that Oakbay Investments chief executive wrote to the party leader requesting a meeting, but the DA “firmly rejected” the proposal.
But perhaps the DA is working on the theme of a morally bankrupt ANC and promising well-run municipalities should it take them in the local elections.
On Saturday the Democratic Alliance held its Manifesto Launch at the Rand Stadium in Jo’burg, and focused on ‘change that moves South Africa forward’.
The mention of Mmusi Maimane had the six guys caucusing amongst one another with puzzled expressions on their faces.
Watch the DA Manifesto Launch live in Johannesburg.
Still no clarity on land or BEE, but Paul Boughey says a number of policies are completed or near completion ahead of the election manifesto launch.
At least 60 people have died in the last two years as violence continues in the Durban hostels, leading for calls for the UN to intervene.
The son of struggle stalwarts Yusuf and Amina Cachalia will lead the Democratic Alliance’s attempt to win the Ekurhuleni municipality.
Investment management firm Allan Gray confirmed on Monday that it had appointed the former finance minister as a non-executive director to its board.
The ANC-led municipality has rejected applications from the DA to protest in the hotly contested metro, allegedly for security reasons.
Following xenophobic comments about foreign nationals last year, Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has been accused of hate speech.
South Africans congregated online to share their views about the failed motion to impeach Zuma. We round up comments from before, during and after.
Maimane lambasted ANC MPs at the parliamentary debate on a motion to impeach President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday.
The Constitutional Court will today pass judgment regarding Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla home. Here’s what that will entail.
A supporter of provincial chair Veliswa Mvenya says mayoral candidate Athol Trollip tried to bribe her to dig up dirt on Mvenya.
Human Rights Day, called Sharpeville Day by some, was marked by politicians’ speaking on the subject across the country.
The DA has laid a charge of corruption against the two Gupta brothers, Atul and Rajesh, and Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane.
After fierce objections by opposition parties, a report recommending former ANC MP Cecil Burgess for appointment was referred back to the committee.
President Zuma has distanced himself from the ex ANC MP’s claims that she accompanied him overseas and that she was offered a job by the Guptas.
A motion of no confidence brought by the DA was easily defeated by the ANC in the National Assembly on Tuesday.
The president’s lawyers insist that the DA’s application for a review of the decision to drop charges against him stems from a political conspiracy.
The ANC, DA and EFF have spoken out against the escalating violence and apparent deterioration of race relations across SA’s universities.
The M&G is committed to learning from its mistake in rushing the article about FW de Klerk giving "political leadership" lessons to Mmusi Maimane.
The FW de Klerk Foundation responds to the Mail & Guardian’s apology over a story published in the paper, regarding FW de Klerk.
The Democratic Alliance responds to the Mail & Guardian’s apology over a story published in the paper, regarding its leader, Mmusi Maimane.
Both ANC and opposition MPs happily drew on fantasy and storytelling to insult one another in the first day of the State of the Nation debate.