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/ 14 January 2009
The hearings of the parliamentary committee trying to decide whether or not Vusi Pikoli was rightly sacked got under way on Wednesday.
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/ 13 January 2009
The DA’s new policy statement on energy and the environment, released on Tuesday, calls for a new ministry to be created.
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/ 12 January 2009
Opposition parties on Monday called for African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma to have his day in court as soon as possible.
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/ 11 January 2009
The ANC election manifesto was "long on promises and short on credibility", Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Saturday.
The DA on Friday called for an investigation into the claim that portions of a video tape seized by the president’s VIP officers were deleted.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) leader in Parliament, Sandra Botha, will retire after the general elections this year, she said on Wednesday.
Parliament’s Marks Building should be renamed the Helen Suzman Building, the Democratic Alliance (DA) proposed on Tuesday.
Minister of Education Naledi Pandor must conduct an independent inquiry into the 2008 matric exams, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Monday.
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/ 30 December 2008
At least 200 members of the Inkatha Freedom Party and Democratic Alliance in KwaZulu-Natal have joined the African National Congress.
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/ 28 December 2008
Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille has admitted that the secret to her new-found youthful glow is botox, it was reported on Sunday.
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/ 13 December 2008
The results were made more humiliating for the ANC by the fact that the breakaway Congress of the People won 10 wards in its debut electoral test.
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/ 12 December 2008
In the run-up to the 2009 elections SA political parties are using the internet and its tools to encourage a political conversation among voters.
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/ 11 December 2008
The ANC on Thursday asked the Constitutional Court to invalidate the 12 by-elections their candidates were excluded from in the Western Cape.
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/ 11 December 2008
The first issue is: to whom is election coverage supposed to be fair? Each political party naturally believes that the obligation is owed to it.
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/ 10 December 2008
On a scale from one to 10, government ministers scored an ”unsatisfactory” 4,67 this year, according to the DA’s annual Cabinet report card.
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/ 8 December 2008
The DA on Monday suggested a cover-up in President Kgalema Motlanthe’s decision to fire NPA head Vusi Pikoli.
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/ 3 December 2008
A clinical trial which could benefit Aids patients is about to lose its funding because the Medicines Control Council won’t answer its phones.
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/ 30 November 2008
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has refuted claims by the Democratic Alliance (DA) that it had shown an increase in spending.
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/ 26 November 2008
The DA on Wednesday unveiled a number of proposals aimed at improving healthcare and ensuring availability of medicines and health professionals.
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/ 26 November 2008
A few political parties contesting next year’s election outline their manifestos. The Democratic Alliance’s Helen Zille has her turn.
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/ 25 November 2008
South African political parties have spoken out against political intolerance and violence ahead of next year’s general elections.
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/ 24 November 2008
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on Sunday compared the African National Congress to a broken door.
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/ 20 November 2008
People often tell DA leader Helen Zille that she is in the ”wrong party”. ”It’s madness,” she says. ”Of course I’m not - there’s no alternative.”
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/ 19 November 2008
ANC’s vision of a developmental state is detrimental to the poor, the unemployed and the politically unconnected.
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/ 18 November 2008
Marianne Thamm, Open Society Research Fellow for 2008, reports on new electoral volatility that poses a threat to the ANC’s overwhelming majority.
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/ 10 November 2008
The Democratic Alliance is to ”relaunch” itself in order to grow its support base, party leader Helen Zille said on Monday.
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/ 5 November 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma’s decision to turn down an invitation to a public debate is regrettable, says Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille.
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/ 5 November 2008
Millions of South Africans are expected to register this weekend for the 2009 elections, the country’s electoral authorities said on Wednesday.
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/ 4 November 2008
The Democratic Alliance on Tuesday urged Health Minister Barbara Hogan to convene a meeting on the public healthcare budget crisis.
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/ 3 November 2008
African National Congress splinter group leaders who recently served the ruling party with ”divorce papers” are guilty of bigamy, says Jacob Zuma.
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/ 27 October 2008
DA leader Helen Zille has called on the Public Service Commission to probe allegations the ANC is interfering in public-service appointments.
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/ 24 October 2008
The appointment of Mnyamezeli Booi as the ANC chief whip in the National Assembly showed the ANC had lost its moral compass, the DA said on Friday.