The DA did not receive money directly from the Guptas but rather from an individual employed by the controversial family, says Helen Zille.
Media reports say former anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele has, on a visit to the US, expressed her intention to join active politics.
The democratic Alliance’s Geordin Hill-Lewis responds to a reader who believes the party supports fracking.
President Jacob Zuma should ignore the open letter written by Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko, says the ANC’s chief whip.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille has pulled out of a New Age Business Breakfast, following reports that the event was funded with public money.
It has happened at last. The Democratic Alliance has finally lost the vote of the white Cape Town elite, writes Andrew Verrijdt.
Last year ended with a flourish of judgments that tested the line between law and politics.
The build-up to the national elections next year is set to be a dirty affair, especially in the highly contested Western Cape.
The Democratic Alliance will no longer be pushing for the parliamentary debate on the motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma.
The DA has announced that in 2013 the party will be submitting report cards for ordinary citizens as well as for members of the Cabinet.
Robust as Parliament debates were over the past year, the legislature failed to address concerns of ordinary South Africans, according to the DA.
The Democratic Alliance has asked the South African Revenue Service to investigate President Jacob Zuma’s financial affairs.
The SA Communist Party says it will take action after the South African Broadcasting Corporation and Midvaal municipality failed to meet its demands.
The decision to hear an application concerning a no-confidence debate about Jacob Zuma was celebrated by the DA and ANC for different reasons.
The DA is gearing up for national elections in 2014 in which it plans to win at least 30% of the votes from the 17% it obtained in 2009.
The Democratic Alliance will have to change perceptions if it wants to increase its share of the vote in 2014, writes Rapule Tabane.
Khaya Dlanga offers the Democratic Alliance and its leader, Helen Zille, some tips on how to increase their number of black voters.
The DA’s federal congress has shown Helen Zille has made small but solid gains in the party as she guns for Gauteng at the 2014 national elections.
Mmusi Maimane and Makashule Gana signalled the changing image of the DA as both were elected to the position of deputy federal chairperson.
The Democratic Alliance’s federal congress has dropped a contentious resolution greenlighting hydraulic fracking in the Karoo.
The DA is to debate its stance on fracking in the Karoo as a resolution supporting the process has been passed without following correct procedures.
The dominant faction of the ANC believes in state capitalism, Democratic Alliance MP Tim Harris said on Sunday.
Helen Zille has fired the first warning shot at the ANC: her party will contest the 2014 national elections to win key provinces, especially Gauteng.
The DA will bring an urgently appeal in the Constitutional Court for a decision on its proposed motion of no-confidence in President Jacob Zuma.
Judge has warned of the danger of politicising courts, even though the motion is of national interest, writes Andisiwe Makinana.
The DA is holding its national congress in Boksburg, Gauteng, this weekend, but it is already in campaigning mode for the 2014 general election.
The ANC proposed changes to the contentious Protection of State Information Bill again, this time tending to the liberal.
The ANC has backtracked on a decision to block the no confidence vote tabled against President Jacob Zuma in Parliament.
Opposition parties on Sunday lashed out at President Jacob Zuma for "misleading" the Parliament about the bond he had on his house in Nkandla.
The DA has filed for an urgent interdict to allow the motion of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma to be debated in the National Assembly.
A man has been killed during farm workers protests outside Wolsely in the Western Cape.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has dismissed apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele’s criticism of the ruling party as opposition politicking.