The ANC has decided not to allow the DA to chair any of Parliament’s portfolio committees as punishment for Helen Zille insulting the president.
The DA on Wednesday said it has asked minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula to request the parole board to review the granting of parole to Schabir Shaik.
The DA has requested the Public Protector to investigate the ANC’s alleged use of public funds for election purposes.
DA leader Helen Zille had harsh words for the media on Friday for ”manufacturing a major row” this week between her and the ANC.
Several events this week showed that despite the alleged maturity of our democracy race and sex still define who we are and how we see ourselves.
DA leader Helen Zille named a national shadow cabinet on Thursday, and said her party would never subscribe to a ”narrative” on gender quotas.
The ANC on Wednesday distanced itself from what it called the ANC Youth League’s ”deeply embarrassing” attack on DA leader Helen Zille.
Newly elected Cape Town mayor Dan Plato says he intends to make job creation and housing delivery his priorities.
Democratic Alliance councillor Dan Plato was on Wednesday elected Mayor of Cape Town in place of Helen Zille.
The male-dominated executive council announced by Western Cape premier Helen Zille was a ”disgrace”, tripartite alliance partners said on Friday.
Johannesburg Metro police will fine political parties if they don’t remove their election posters by Monday, spokesperson Wayne Minnaar said.
DA leader Helen Zille accepted premiership of the Western Cape on Wednesday with a commitment to open, accountable and transparent government.
The election of Jacob Zuma as president of the country was challenged on Wednesday by the nomination of the presidential candidate of Cope.
African National Congress (ANC) Youth League president Julius Malema on Friday called Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille ”a racist little girl”.
The ”Stop Zuma” campaign denied the ANC a two-thirds majority in the recent elections, DA leader Helen Zille said on Friday.
The ANC will bring the DA ”to book” for its selective service delivery and treatment of poor people in the Western Cape, the party said on Wednesday.
The South African government’s ”non-response” to the outbreak of swine flu was worrying, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday.
The Freedom Front Plus has its own ideas about why the smaller opposition parties did so badly in the general election last week.
DA leader Helen Zille will step down as Cape Town mayor on Wednesday when she’s gazetted as a member of the Western Cape provincial legislature.
The ANC is set to fall just short of the two-thirds of votes needed to ensure a parliamentary majority sufficient to make sweeping changes.
Like a wayward child, the Western Cape is the only province in South Africa not to dance in step with Umshini Wami
The DA was the biggest beneficiary of the overseas vote that took place two weeks ago. It received 7 581 (77%) of the 9 857 votes.
It was an easy win for the ANC. But what quickly emerged was that a shift had occurred in the South African political landscape.
By midday on Thursday DA leader Helen Zille was happy that her party was on track to make their target of receiving 15% of the national vote.
The number of votes coming into the IEC’s national results centre picked up from a trickle to more substantial numbers by Thursday afternoon.
The ANC’s lead in the national election took a 0,13% dip over lunchtime on Thursday as more results from Gauteng polling stations became available.
The ANC was leading the race in eight of the nine provinces late on Thursday morning while the ruling party has also increased its lead over the DA.
Many deserted the IFP, some changed their votes to Cope, and others just kept on voting for SA’s liberation movement, the ANC.
DA leader Helen Zille told the Mail & Guardian Online on Thursday that the party is ”not very happy” about the election results.
With three million votes counted, the ANC is cruising to another convincing victory in South Africa’s fourth democratic election.
At midnight on Wednesday the elections results showed that the ANC is in poll position to take the majority in the 2009 national elections.
The ululating coursed through voters at the Ntolweni Primary School like a set of aural dominoes as Jacob Zuma stepped out of his 4X4 at Nxamalala.