DA leader Helen Zille is insisting that there was not just one funder who had "secretly" brokered the merger between her party and Agang SA.
Readers share their thoughts on the recent headline-grabbing kerfuffle between DA leader Helen Zille and Agang SA’s Mamphela Ramphele.
The political year has started with a flop. With elections looming, Richard Calland asks what else could go wrong.
It matters a great deal that the partnership between Helen Zille and Mampela Ramphele dissolved so quickly, writes Sisonke Msimang.
The Democratic Alliance has said most of SA’s opposition parties want a coalition to win 30% of the vote, as well as Gauteng and the Northern Cape.
Once upon a time Helen and Mamphela, or Hemphela, professed their union. But five days is a long-term affair in politics. True love be damned.
While her spokesperson denies a donor was behind the DA-Agang SA partnership, opposition leader Helen Zille tweeted pressure was on Mamphela Ramphele.
From crippling impatience to invoking Nelson Mandela’s name: the failed Agang SA-DA merger was a lesson in how not to do things in SA politics.
In an interview with the <i>M&G</i> Mamphela Ramphele answers some difficult questions about the now infamous break-up.
Mamphela Ramphele has offered little explaination on why her decision to run as the DA’s presidential candidate was not discussed with Agang members.
Jackson Mthembu says both parties have lost credibility after Agang SA’s leader backtracked on standing as the DA’s presidential candidate.
DA leader Helen Zille says Agang SA’s Mamphela Ramphele has "reneged" on their agreement that Ramphele stand as the DA’s presidential candidate.
DA lawyers are challenging the decision to disallow a march to the ANC’s headquarters in Johannesburg.
It remains to be seen whether Agang leader Mamphela Ramphele will in fact stand as the Democratic Alliance’s presidential candidate.
This week, Helen Zille and Mamphela Ramphele join forces, violent protests rock Ralele, and Zuma could be a Nkandla ward councillor.
The party’s young guns say the doctor will have to fight her way up the ranks like everyone else.
Readers comment on immigrants in the Middle East, the DA’s silence and linguistics, and Cope’s Mosiuoa Lekota challenges the ANC on party funding.
Zille has said there is a strong likelihood there will be more than one woman in the provincial executive after the elections.
Don’t dismiss Zille’s courtship of Ramphele as an electoral gimmick. It’s part of a plan to make the DA more acceptable to black South Africans.
Agang SA says the party is "solid" and that its leader Mamphela Ramphele’s decision to become the DA’s presidential candidate must still be discussed.
The ANC secretary general says Agang SA was a "stillborn" party, and that its leader’s move to the DA was a case of "rent-a-black, rent-a-leader".
An Agang SA official says the party will elect a new leader and run in the election – a day after a merger between it and the DA was announced.
Helen Zille and Mamphela Ramphele’s merger might not leave everyone as happy as the two seem to think, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
The announcement that Mamphela Ramphele will be the DA’s presidential candidate will help deal with race issues, says Helen Zille.
The 2007 DA young leader programme to grow its own timber has shown fruit, with 33 of its graduates making it on to the party’s election lists.
The Democratic Alliance is waiting for the police to give it the go-ahead for its fight-for-jobs march to the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters.
The DA has released most of its list of election candidates for provincial and national spots. It features no journalists, but this could change.
Cosatu claims the Democratic Alliance’s plan to march to the ANC’s headquarters in Johannesburg is an election stunt and an act of pure opportunism.
Jackson Mthembu has accused the DA of causing hostility between it and the ANC, warning the party of violence it witnessed at a march on Cosatu House.
The National Consumer Commission says it will take up complaints about e-tolling but has encouraged consumers to not make it their first option.
The DA has requested for government to provide answers about "Project Flute", a satellite contract it says was commissioned over eight years ago.
The DA has scored President Jacob Zuma and eight Cabinet ministers Fs on their report cards, saying they should be fired for their poor performance.