The ANC has requested that the SAHRC investigate "insulting" online content, saying the material threatens the constitutional rights of its voters.
The Democratic Alliance wants a full inquiry into the appointment of embattled National Prosecuting Authority chief Mxolisi Nxasana.
The DA has been slow to act to a derogatory tweet, saying it will revisit its social media policy despite the document already prohibiting the tweet.
Three people have been arrested for public violence during evictions in Lwandle, when petrol bombs and tyres were set alight.
People from Lwandle informal settlement in Strand have been evicted because they did not vote for the DA in the elections, says the ANC.
EFF leader Julius Malema says his party is willing to work with political parties, including the ANC and DA, on issues of common interest.
The DA has appointed Phumzile van Damme and Marius Redelinghuys as national spokespersons to replace Mmusi Maimane.
The DA says the appointment of some Cabinet ministers indicates President Jacob Zuma created jobs for friends rather than good governance.
Mmusi Maimane, the DA’s national spokesperson, says he will stand for the party’s parliamentary leader to replace the outgoing Lindiwe Mazibuko.
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.
The Democratic Alliance leader says her enemies are using her falling out with Lindiwe Mazibuko to force her out.
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Former minister Dina Pule – who Thuli Madonsela found guilty of unethical conduct – has been replaced by Mnyamezeli Booi on the ANC’s list of new MPs.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.