Someone "with an axe to grind" used the <i>Sunday Times</i> newspaper to create a scandal in the Western Cape, premier Helen Zille says.
Helen Zille has denied that her office awarded a communications tender worth R1-billion to an advertising agency without following proper channels.
Helen Zille’s office has awarded a communications tender to an advertising agency, allegedly without following proper procedures.
After a public spat with singer Simphiwe Dana, DA leader Helen Zille says that the social platform Twitter can be as troublesome as it is useful.
The Gauteng education department has only spent 14% of its budget for early childhood development, despite promises of increased spending.
Freedom from oppression is only a reality for a fortunate few women in South Africa, the Democratic Alliance said on National Women’s Day.
The DA says the state is overrating the risks the Walmart-Massmart merger poses, while the companies await Competition Appeal Court proceedings.
Lawmakers won agreement from the ANC to consider proposals for extending protection to those who disclose classified information for the public good.
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.
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.
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.
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.