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The ANC has dismissed the vote of no confidence tabled against Jacob Zuma by a coalition of opposition parties in Parliament as a waste of time.
President Jacob Zuma may face court action over the financing of upgrades at his rural residence in Nkandla if the Democratic Alliance gets its way.
It remains unclear if President Jacob Zuma will accept letters from Limpopo school children demanding he address problems in the education system.
Helen Zille goes Nkandla bashing in the KZN. She’ll stop at nothing – except a police-sponsored ANC roadblock – but can she handle the truth that lurks inside?
If referring to President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead as a "compound" is racist, then all three arms of government are racist too.
In SA parties are elected, not individuals. Why, then, do we have the insistent hype about a debate between President Jacob Zuma and Helen Zille?
Helen Zille’s thwarted march to Nkandla and SA’s slide into mediocrity is like something out of a book. But it’s all too real, writes Verashni Pillay.
The DA hopes to deliver more than 600 letters to President Jacob Zuma from Limpopo pupils, asking him to provide better resources for their education.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille has defended the party’s decision to visit President Jacob Zuma’s homestead in Nkandla.
The Democratic Alliance has given President Jacob Zuma 72 hours to answer questions on his new home or face legal action.
The ANC will fracture before the decade is out, pulled apart by tension between big business and labour, opposition leader Helen Zille said.
Police were preventing DA leader Helen Zille from approaching President Jacob Zuma’s homestead in Nkandla on Sunday, for her own safety.
The SACP has condemned the DA’s planned inspection of Zuma’s R200-million upgrade in Nkandla, saying it is part of a "racist right wing agenda".
DA leader Helen Zille should abandon her planned inspection of President Jacob Zuma’s home in Nkandla, the African National Congress has said.
Nathi Mthethwa has announced that he will file court papers to challenge the validity of the commission of inquiry into policing in Khayelitsha.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille will continue to lead the party until such time as ‘someone else can do this job better than I can’.
The US debate tradition began in 1858 when, during the senatorial campaign, Abraham Lincoln challenged an opponent from the audience.
The Democratic Alliance has announced the candidates who will contest elections at the party’s federal congress in November.
Newly elected DA provincial leader Ivan Meyer has said he is determined to export the successes of the Western Cape to the rest of the country.
Speaking at the DA Western Cape conference, Zille has said that "unlike the ANC Western Cape congress … there will be no foul play or vote rigging".
Controversy is brewing within the Democratic Alliance about outgoing leader Theuns Botha’s desire to be the new leader’s second-in-command.
There’s fickle, and then there’s Julius Malema. Verashni Pillay tracks his dramatic changes in tune on everything from Helen Zille to soldiers.
Police say charges have been laid against the ANC Youth League in the Western Cape after Monday’s protest began later than expected.
For the second month in a row, the ANCYL has marched on Premier Helen Zille’s offices and again she did not come out to accept their memorandum.
With the publication of the Democratic Alliance’s growth and jobs plan, the recalibration of SA politics continues apace, writes Richard Calland.
The Democratic Alliance’s economic strategy in the Western Cape must be questioned, ANC provincial legislature member Max Ozinsky has said.
The DA’s pinning of service delivery violence on the ANC and its youth league in the Western Cape is a publicity stunt, says the party.
Unlike the ANC, the Democratic Alliance’s jobs and growth plan is a unified vision offered with one voice, writes Lynley Donnelly.
Are our politicians finally learning how to disagree like adults? Verashni Pillay desperately hopes so, despite the ANC’s troubling politics.
A full transcript of the notorius "spy tapes" is still at large, in defiance of a court order, writes Glynnis Underhill.
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille says Jacob Zuma wants an assessment on the gang situation in Lavender Hill and Hanover Park on the Cape Flats.