DA leader Helen Zille has challenged Cope to say whether it plans to enter into a coalition with the ANC after the April elections.
Fraud convict Schabir Shaik’s case is one of ”parole for pals”, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille said on Thursday.
DA leader Helen Zille on Monday dismissed claims by Cope that her party has not made a difference to the lives of the people of Cape Town.
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/ 27 February 2009
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema is a product of the ANC’s failed education policy, DA leader Helen Zille said on Friday
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/ 26 February 2009
The lobbing of insults is pretty standard during an election, but South African politicians have gone a step further in the run-up to voting day.
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/ 24 February 2009
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille stands by her remark made on Sunday that Julius Malema is an ”inkwenkwe”, which refers to an uncircumcised boy.
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/ 23 February 2009
The DA’s youth leader on Monday dismissed his ANC counterpart Julius Malema as ”a petty little man” who is too cowardly to take him on in debate.
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/ 23 February 2009
The Democratic Alliance Youth on Sunday challenged African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema to a public debate.
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/ 19 February 2009
DA leader Helen Zille has called on her ANC counterpart Jacob Zuma to step down as his party’s presidential candidate in the coming elections.
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/ 14 February 2009
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said all the right things when unveiling the party’s election manifesto in Johannesburg on Saturday.
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/ 12 February 2009
The Democratic Alliance will not be intimidated by political thugs, party leader Helen Zille said on Thursday.
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/ 9 February 2009
The DA’s biggest coup has been Wilmot James, a former dean of the University of Cape Town and former head of the Immigration Advisory Board of SA.
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/ 6 February 2009
There were some interesting hats at Friday’s opening of Parliament, but nothing to scare the pigeons as much as the 21-gun salute did.
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/ 4 February 2009
The African National Congress on Wednesday confirmed that it would join Jacob Zuma in his legal battle as friends of the court.
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/ 1 February 2009
Political parties jockeyed for position this weekend with Azapo launching its manifesto and the ANC and DA setting out their plans for the country.
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/ 23 January 2009
Helen Zille accused the ANC on Friday of rewarding crime by putting Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Tony Yengeni on its election nomination lists.
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/ 21 January 2009
The Democratic Alliance has proposed far-reaching changes to governance policy, including the direct election of the president, premiers and mayors.
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/ 20 January 2009
It will be JZ versus HZ in the coming elections, if DA leader Helen Zille has her way.
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/ 16 January 2009
The ANC’s 2009 election manifesto — described by some commentators as ”pro-poor” — is in fact pro-poverty and pro-unemployment, the DA says.
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/ 15 January 2009
An ANC lurch to the left is bound to throw the country off course, said Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on Thursday.
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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.
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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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/ 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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/ 3 December 2008
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille has once again challenged African National Congress president Jacob Zuma to a public debate.
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/ 28 November 2008
DA leader Helen Zille appropriates non-racialism as the ANC sheds it.
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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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/ 21 November 2008
DA leader Helen Zille on Friday criticised ANC president Jacob Zuma for travelling in a convoy of 33 vehicles while campaigning in Limpopo.
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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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/ 7 November 2008
Political parties across the spectrum agreed on Friday to promote tolerance, particularly in the build-up to next year’s election.
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/ 7 November 2008
African National Congress president Jacob Zuma has rejected DA leader Helen Zille’s offer to engage him in a public debate.