As the three big parties make their last attempts to woo voters in this year’s local government elections, we look back at the promises in their manifestos
Both the podcast host and the leader of the Democratic Alliance believe in a toothless non-racialism that ignores the historical foundation of racism and the pain it inflicts in the present
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Paddy Harper doesn’t know who to vote for yet, since the Dagga Party isn’t contesting his ward, but right now what to order for lunch is a more pressing concern
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A song about Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane preventing looting was way off the mark in a province riddled with corruption and theft
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For more than five years the deputy president has remained steadfast in his right to travel abroad to receive medical treatment
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The party will remove the ‘racially inciting’ posters and ‘discipline’ its KwaZulu-Natal chairperson
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It would be refreshing if South Africans encountered political parties that actually walked the talk of embracing the ideals of nonracialism
The party’s regional leadership, concerned at the impact the controversial posters will have on voters in the 1 November elections, insist they must be removed
The DA launched its 37-page manifesto on a virtual platform under the banner “The DA gets things done”.
Local government is about cutting the grass and filling potholes, not about the death penalty and prayer in schools
The DA announces it will approach the high court, and the Helen Suzman Foundation has also threatened action
The DA announces its mayoral candidates for this years local government elections while the ANC and EFF hold their cards close to the chest
DA leader John Steenhuisen challenges ANC to share its list of mayoral candidates during the main opposition party’s own big metro candidate list-reveal
A 827-page register compels members of parliament publicly to declare anything worth more than R500, and it makes for interesting reading
Sources inside the DA say that MP and finance spokesperson Geordin Hill-Lewis will likely be named as candidate for Cape Town ahead of the incumbent, Dan Plato.
The new political party funding law brings changes to allocations – and possibly an end to dodgy donors
Speaking in the national assembly after Ace Magashule tried to ‘suspend’ him, the president told the DA he keeps quiet when internal strife hits the opposition.
Tony Leon’s comments calling Mmusi Maimane an ‘experiment’ have lifted the lid on what disgruntled black leaders describe as insidious racism and a refusal to hold racists to account
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The threat to the president’s rule comes not from the opposition, but from within the ANC
The official opposition’s leader John Steenhuisen has called its mission to slash the ANC voter share unrealistic during a parliamentary meeting, as the party deals with financial challenges
and a fresh round of staff retrenchments
You’ll feel a slight pinch, nothing more.
President Cyril Ramaphosa did little to inspire hope in the government’s strategy of boosting the economy, but all is not lost, political analysts say
DA leader John Steenhuisen has called for Ramaphosa to throw out what he termed an ‘outdated 20th century ideology of state control’
Democratic Alliance drags the government to court, demanding a Covid-19 vaccination rollout plan.
The ANC has slammed conspiracy theorists and cautioned against showing complacency towards the deadly virus
The anti-Black Lives Matter backlash in South Africa highlights the growing ideological convergence between the far right and conservatives
Parties forced to adapt to the ‘new normal’ as ANC’s anti-corruption drive delivers dividends
Interacting with the opposition’s leaders is enough to drive one to paranoia, giggles, perhaps even to the Freedom Front
All the contenders are deeply flawed, losing support, or both
The president was answering questions before parliament, where he also told the EFF to allow the courts to decide on the matter of the CR17 bank statements
Dudu Myeni is out of favour, an interim leader becomes The Permanent One, and Meyiwa’s killers ‘found’
It was a landslide victory for John Steenhuisen, who thanked his family and opponent Mbali Ntuli before characteristically tearing into the ANC-led government for its anti-liberal policies, numerous failures, megalomania, and rampant corruption.