Public Protector Thuli Madonsela will decide this week whether to investigate a communications tender in the Western Cape.
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.
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 DA will honour struggle hero Kader Asmal by defending the Constitution, says DA leader Helen Zille.
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.
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.
Taxpayers have footed massive bills for the legal wrangle of Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe and the end is not yet in sight.
Western Cape premier Helen Zille says she has appointed ex-Cape Town mayor Dan Plato as the minister for community safety in her provincial cabinet.
Seven of the 11 sitting judges of the Constitutional Court would be in conflict and unable to hear an appeal from Judge John Hlophe.
The ANC has sarcastically pointed out that only in SA can a party that wins 62% of the vote be deemed to have lost an 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"
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.
Analysts have, by and large, fallen into two misguided camps: those who have breathlessly proclaimed a "sea change" or "watershed” election.
DA leader Helen Zille sent a tweet over the weekend saying a newspaper graphic on the local government election results was incorrect.
The most hotly contested local elections are now over and all the political parties are putting their own spin on what’s been a bruising contest.
A harried week of phone banking and social networking marked parties’ final drive.
DA leader Helen Zille has laid a complaint with the IEC in Nelson Mandela Bay after she discovered several voters were casting only one ballot.
President Jacob Zuma called for "proper" roads, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela called for jobs and voters called for faster queues on Wednesday.
From 7am on Wednesday over 23-million registered voters will go to over 20 000 polling stations to choose a representative at local government level.
Twitter is not real life and Helen Zille is not your best friend, writes <b>Verashni Pillay</b>.
President Jacob Zuma and ANCYL leader Julius Malema are creating racial divisions in South Africa, DA leader Helen Zille said on Monday.
Political parties ratcheted up the rhetoric this weekend ahead of the local government elections on Wednesday.
DA leader Helen Zille told voters hers was the only party that could make Nelson Mandela’s vision of a better life for South Africans possible.
The results of the May 18 elections will indicate whether the Democratic Alliance can continue to grow.
The day of reckoning for the leaders of SA’s two biggest political parties is close and whatever happens will be a reflection of their capabilities.
While DA leader Helen Zille courted voters in Port Elizabeth, President Zuma was telling Jo’burgers that the DA’s hopes for Gauteng were "daydreams".
Helen Zille took the DA’s electoral campaign to a poor Port Elizabeth area, promising better policing and community work if the party is voted in.
The ANC is making inroads into DA strongholds, particularly in the Western Cape, ANC head of elections Ngoako Ramathlodi said on Thursday.
Western Cape premier Helen Zille on Tuesday released a new ministerial handbook in an effort to reduce excessive spending by provincial ministers.