Helen Zille says SA’s first national planning report has failed to set out clear ideas on how to deal with crime and the decline in the rule of law.
The ANC Youth League said Sars shouldn’t take orders from opposition parties, in response to the DA calling for a lifestyle audit on Julius Malema.
Cabinet ministers’ car hire bills are a "reckless" use of state funds, Democratic Alliance MP Ian Ollis said on Monday.
Parliament is planning to spend more than R2-billion on a revamp of facilities and the parliamentary precinct, but lacks an independent watchdog.
The DA will ask the IAEA to probe what happened to over 200 "radiation devices" that can’t be accounted for by the Directorate of Radiation Control.
Exiting ANCYL secretary general Vuyiswa Tulelo speaks to the <i>M&G</i> about the league’s congress, nationalisation and issues with some ANC leaders.
When a bust of Hendrik Verwoerd disappeared into the night in Midvaal, the question arose: What actually happens to the statues from our sordid past?
DA leader Helen Zille says the party’s success in a ward without white voters shows that uprisings are no longer needed to bring about change.
Cosatu has welcomed the uncovering of serious flaws in the procurement of Gauteng road department tenders worth more than R1-billion.
In the recent local-government elections the Democratic Alliance emerged as a serious rival to the ANC.
Which party wants the Western Cape to secede from South Africa? Hint: it’s not the DA.
Missing funds for non-existent T-shirts and shaky coalition deals have left Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota with fewer friends after the local elections.
Idasa has criticised a government training programme for newly elected councillors, saying it would not "ensure their competency".
Opposition partisanship is on the rise, indicating a shift in politics in SA, a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies has said.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions has said that print media coverage of the recent local government elections was mostly biased.
Coalition rule in Cape Town was the first major step in the DA’s move into government. But the party is treading more carefully this time around.
Analysts have, by and large, fallen into two misguided camps: those who have breathlessly proclaimed a "sea change" or "watershed” election.
Many analysts and news reporters, both at the SABC and in the private media, have emphasised how the 2011 municipal elections were "business as usual"
The DA will not court trouble by entering coalitions with problematic parties merely to win control over two small municipalities in the Western Cape.
Cape Town’s toilet saga will come under the spotlight again after Andile Lili moves into the metro council as a proportional representative.
The ANC’s priority prior to the national elections in three years’ time will be to claw back the minority vote.
The DA has questioned the motives behind a request by President Jacob Zuma for a Special Investigating Unit probe into the Midvaal municipality.
DA leader Helen Zille sent a tweet over the weekend saying a newspaper graphic on the local government election results was incorrect.
The African National Congress and the National Freedom Party will hold coalition talks on Monday afternoon in Durban.
Cope’s status as official opposition in the Northern Cape did little to boost it in the municipal elections.
We’re breathing a sigh of relief that those pesky elections are over.
At least one party has begun talks to form coalitions, with a few others expressing an interest, as the local government elections draw to a close.
The release of the overall results for the Cape Town metro have been delayed after an IEC official failed to submit result slips for scanning.
Beneath the surface tensions were seething, especially in Thembisa where a final call for a no-vote campaign was being made.
Although Cope didn’t win any council outright, they were set to act as kingmaker in a number of municipalities where the ANC and DA were neck and neck
It is voting day in Thembisa and the Caprivi Pub — not a polling station — is the centre of the action where nonvoters gather to enjoy the day.
The Democratic Alliance’s strategy to rebrand itself and create a home for people of all colours pays off.