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/ 23 October 2008
The DA has called on the Independent Electoral Commission to act and quell political violence and intimidation, the party said on Thursday.
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/ 17 October 2008
The ANC should pay back the R10m it received from businessmen Robert Gumede in the face of allegations that the donor was under police investigation.
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/ 16 October 2008
DA leader Helen Zille has written to the SABC requesting the broadcaster give the opposition the same platform afforded to Jacob Zuma.
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/ 14 October 2008
The DA has criticised allegations that Gauteng has responded to only seven of 195 corruption cases reported to an anti-corruption hotline.
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/ 14 October 2008
Nosimilo Ndlovu and Thembelihle Tshabalala asked ordinary South Africans to share their views on the possibility of a new political party.
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/ 10 October 2008
The new ‘coalition of the wounded’ will frighten but not dislodge the ANC at next year’s polls.
An offer to buy back voucher claims at the centre of Travelgate was considered the best option for dealing with the matter, Parliament said.
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/ 30 September 2008
The ANC should focus on addressing weaknesses in legislation governing the Scorpions instead of seeking to disband the unit, the DA said on Tuesday.
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/ 28 September 2008
The ANC and opposition DA are neck and neck among urban South Africans ahead of an election due next year, according to a survey.
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/ 24 September 2008
Elections should be held immediately, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Wednesday.
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/ 19 September 2008
Jacob Zuma must accept the decision of the prosecutors to appeal the ruling of Judge Chris Nicholson, says DA leader Helen Zille.
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/ 16 September 2008
The DA has threatened to consider private prosecution of ANC leader Jacob Zuma if the NPA declines to act further against him.
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/ 15 September 2008
The DA on Monday submitted a motion to Parliament calling for a debate on the establishment of a commission of inquiry into the arms deal.
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/ 5 September 2008
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille has accused cellphone giant Vodacom of helping the ANC-controlled Western Cape government to illegally spy on her.
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/ 4 September 2008
The Democratic Alliance on Thursday raised concerns over the South African Police Service’s ability to undertake complex investigations.
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/ 4 September 2008
The DA has raised concerns over the South African Police Service’s ability to undertake complex crime investigations.
The ID in Cape Town on Wednesday blocked a bid to fine an errant DA councillor on the grounds that the punishment was too light.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Wednesday called for the unconditional and immediate scrapping of the two Bills that aim to disband the Scorpions.
The election fodder was wheeled out for a photo-opportunity at the Inkatha Freedom Party’s offices in downtown Durban this week.
African National Congress president Jacob Zuma’s ascent will not bring a new era of ”openness”, said Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on Friday.
While Blade Nzimande attacks the media and judiciary, South Africans must heed the words of the Constitution’s caretakers.
Sotyu proclaimed that the Scorpions would be dissolved because the ANC had decided to do so, despite public hearings into the issue.
The sector education and training authorities (Setas) should be scrapped and replaced with a tax-rebate scheme for skills development, the DA says.
Justice and Constitutional Development Deputy Minister Johnny de Lange has effectively put his hand up for a cabinet role in a Zuma government.
Former DA leader Tony Leon says the crisis in the judiciary has been more than a decade in the making.
South Africa’s opposition parties are failing to cash in on the infighting in the ANC, a recent survey indicates.
The DA website has been offline for the past week and is likely to stay so for the next, thanks to an unknown hacker’s attack on the site.
A farmers’ group on Thursday withdrew from a parliamentary public hearing on the future of the Scorpions, saying it turned into an ANC meeting.
The state-owned airline has received R20-billion in bail-outs in the past five years, reports Lynley Donnelly.
Britain’s MI5 and the United States’s CIA are the masters of the Scorpions, a public hearing into their dissolution heard in Durban on Tuesday.
The ANC is ”worried” about the public’s opinion on its decision to disband the Scorpions, says the DA at public hearings on the Scorpions’ future.
Drug abuse is costing SA R20-billion a year and could pose a bigger threat to the country’s future than the Aids pandemic, DA leader Helen Zille says.