The leadership crisis in the ruling African National Congress and gross iniquities of South African society cannot be ignored any longer.
What will happen when the ANC and its trade union allies are no longer unquestioningly accepted as the sole legitimate representatives of poor?
Mario Wanza, the maverick activist behind the United Democratic Front, says it is needed to fulfil the promises of 1994.
The DA has said that it tried to pass two bills to fight the scourge of corruption, but ANC blocked them saying they would hurt business.
The lesson of Egypt’s Tahrir Square is clear: A system that benefits insiders only is unsustainable.
Cape Town councillor Andile Lili says that South Africa’s poor have been failed by officials across the board.
The fight to prevent Sanral’s e-tolling system from being rolled out on Gauteng’s freeways starts at the Constitutional Court on Wednesday.
Public protector Thuli Madonsela has been unfazed by criticism of her attendance of a Women’s Day event organised by the Democratic Alliance.
The DA has claimed it will break down the wall that excludes so many young South Africans from gainful employment.
Madonsela’s attendance at a Women’s Day event organised by the DA is part of a constitutional obligation to be accessible to people, her office says.
In the old days, the Democratic Alliance’s 88-page economic manifesto would have been another weighty tome to carry around.
With the publication of the Democratic Alliance’s growth and jobs plan, the recalibration of SA politics continues apace, writes Richard Calland.
The DA’s pinning of service delivery violence on the ANC and its youth league in the Western Cape is a publicity stunt, says the party.
Lindiwe Mazibuko has called for the ANC to justify the planned R2bn ‘Zumaville’ project, while unemployment and poverty remains high in KwaZulu-Natal.
Unlike the ANC, the Democratic Alliance’s jobs and growth plan is a unified vision offered with one voice, writes Lynley Donnelly.
Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko speaks to the M&G about her party’s Growth Plan and Jobs Campaign for South Africa.
The DA has asked the public protector to probe the department of women, children and people with disabilities for not delivering on its mandate.
Government departments must rein in their catering expenditure and spend more on delivering services to the poor, the DA says.
The Democratic Alliance claims the ANC in the City of Johannesburg wants to develop a secrecy Bill for the municipality.
A full transcript of the notorius "spy tapes" is still at large, in defiance of a court order, writes Glynnis Underhill.
While disgraced officials may resign, firing them is tricky. SA’s parties are trying to come up with ways to deal with those who try to brazen it out.
Only one foreign representative from the Democratic Alliance has been left standing, writes Phillip de Wet.
DA MPL Anthony Benadie says criminal charges will be laid against ANC Youth League deputy president Ronald Lamola over his comments on land reform.
A Gauteng union official claims there is evidence that the DA caused the violence that broke out when it marched on Cosatu’s Johannesburg offices.
The Democratic Alliance has found an unlikely partner in the Federation of Unions of South Africa as it continues its fight for a youth wage subsidy.
Nothing annoys South Africans more than someone saying we’re worse off than Zimbabwe. But at least we’re not Botswana.
We ask the DA’s Mmusi Maimane and the ANCWL’s Troy Martens to sell some unusual brands. This year’s 200 Young South Africans will be revealed on June 22.
DA parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko has called on KwaZulu-Natal premier Zweli Mkhize to implement the youth wage subsidy.
The Democratic Alliance says suspended police commissioner Bheki Cele should not be allowed to resign from his job, but should be fired.
Showing a little more emotion would not hurt the Democratic Alliance, writes Verashni Pillay after an interview with the party’s leader.
Helen Zille on a mission could sabotage the slowly, slowly approach that has served the Democratic Alliance well, writes Richard Calland.
A global wage agreement and a healthy, educated workforce are necessary to produce long-lasting jobs, writes Doron Isaacs and Ilan Strauss.