The Democratic Alliance leader says her enemies are using her falling out with Lindiwe Mazibuko to force her out.
The EFF – who upstaged the National Assembly’s first sitting – and other MPs need to ensure Parliament is not a mere rubber stamp for the ANC.
White mentors like Helen Zille need a wake-up call, writes Verashni Pillay. You do not "own" your black protégés just because you endorsed them.
Former minister Dina Pule – who Thuli Madonsela found guilty of unethical conduct – has been replaced by Mnyamezeli Booi on the ANC’s list of new MPs.
After an M&G report, the public protector has been asked to probe claims that Jacob Zuma abused his power for an investment in his nephew’s company.
The press ombudsman has ruled that a Sunday Independent report on the DA and a "Twitter race war" was inaccurate and misleading.
The cracks between Helen Zille and Lindiwe Mazibuko began showing themselves a while ago. Is a difference in opinion between members good for the DA?
Saying that he has "another important job I do", James Selfe has turned down Helen Zille’s request that he stands as candidate for DA caucus leader.
The DA leader says reports that she said she "made" Lindiwe Mazibuko were distorted and leaked from a party meeting with an agenda.
The ANC may have to go begging to the opposition to make Baleka Mbete SA’s second deputy president, given that her name appears on the national list.
The Democratic Alliances’s black caucus is out to challenge party leader Helen Zille’s culture of annointing ‘yes men and women’.
Katlego Phala will be sworn in as a member of the provincial legislature next week. At 22 years old, she will be the youngest MPL in the country.
The election outcome was a call by South Africans for soul-searching and a warning against complacency that the ANC and DA ignore at their peril.
Mayor Patricia de Lille says DA MP Tim Harris will join her office to help maintain Cape Town’s status as "the best-run city in the country".
The race is on for Lindiwe Mazibuko’s Parliament position between the opposition’s golden boy, Mmusi Maimane, and its black caucus’s Makashule Gana.
DA sources say the former parliamentary leader’s decision to leave her position has saved the opposition party from a damaging leadership battle.
The ANC has won this election, even with a compromised leader. But waning support and stronger opposition are problems it will not want to face.
Lindiwe Mazibuko has quit her job as the DA’s parliamentary leader, to study at Harvard University in the US.
IEC chair Pansy Tlakula has announced that 13 parties won seats in the National Assembly in this year’s elections with the ANC taking 249 seats.
After arriving back in the Western Cape, the DA head says her party will start planning for the 2016 local government elections from Monday.
Nomvula Mokonyane says the army has moved in Alexandra after protests there over arrested demonstrators turned violent.
The ruling ANC had won the Free State but dropped below 70% of support while the DA is again the official opposition.
While the ANC has firmly established itself in KZN, the country’s official opposition now has its foot in the door.
The DA gained 3.2 percentage points in the Western Cape provincial election – but not at the expense of the ANC.
Despite internal party strife in Nelson Mandela Bay, the ANC crossed the 70% mark in the Eastern Cape, followed by the DA.
Despite dropping six percentage points, the ANC has won the provincial vote in the North West, the province in which the Marikana massacre took place.
Images of dumped ballot papers found in a field in Pretoria have caused a minor outrage, but are likely only to be an issue if a recount is need.
The traditional stronghold of the ruling party gave the ANC a 78.33% win, while the DA has come in a distant second with 10.4% of the provincial vote.
The Northern Cape’s votes have been counted, and while the DA and ANC have walked away smiling, Cope has been left humiliated.
The DA and new kid on the block, the EFF, have together absorbed almost the same number of votes as Cope has lost in the Northern Cape.
Early projections show the ruling party will likely keep over 60% of SA’s support. But it won’t get a two-thirds majority in Parliament.
In the country’s only province ruled by the DA, the ANC has made its presence felt, even well after closing time of the national elections.