Rapule Tabane puts 10 tough ones to the leader of the Independent Democrats, Patricia de Lille.
The DA won victories in two by-elections held in Cape Town on Wednesday, a sign, the party says, that it is on track to win the Western Cape.
Opposition parties have been quick to hit out at the reported intention of the NPA to drop charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma.
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Opposition parties on Tuesday slammed the release of convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik on medical parole.
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/ 29 January 2009
The African National Congress triumphed in 23 of the 27 wards contested in six provinces in Wednesday’s by-election.
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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 December 2008
Patricia de Lille on Thursday laid a charge against former justice minister Brigitte Mabandla, alleging she interfered with the working of the NPA.
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/ 19 November 2008
Many charge that the ID is more of a one-person lobby group than an opposition party, but De Lille counters that it has grown both in membership terms
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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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/ 1 November 2008
Opposition parties came out in support of the national convention on Saturday, praising the initiative as historical and a significant step.
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/ 15 October 2008
Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille offers some advice to Mosiuoa Lekota on how to launch a new party.
Bheki Jacobs, who died last week at the age of 46, was one of the most remarkable figures to come out of the liberation struggle.
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/ 14 September 2008
Patricia De Lille will submit a motion to Parliament on Monday for a commission of inquiry into the arms deal to be instituted.
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/ 12 September 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma said on Friday that the court ruling in his favour was a victory for the justice system but had left him a ”wounded warrior”.
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/ 8 September 2008
The man described as the main source for the ”De Lille Dossier”, which raised questions over SA’s arms deal, died in Cape Town on Monday morning.
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/ 3 September 2008
Embattled ANC president Jacob Zuma has drawn support from a rather surprising quarter — the born-again National Party.
Sotyu proclaimed that the Scorpions would be dissolved because the ANC had decided to do so, despite public hearings into the issue.
The Presidency on Sunday strongly rejected renewed allegations of arms-deal corruption involving President Thabo Mbeki.
Opposition parties reacted on Sunday to the apparent firing of the Eastern and Western Cape premiers by the African National Congress.
The Independent Democrats (ID) on Sunday criticised the African National Congress (ANC) for attacking Constitutional Court judges.
Reports that President Mbeki is off the hook regarding a German probe into alleged arms deal corruption are mischievous, says the Justice department.
Controversial comments made by ANC Youth League president Julius Malema on June 16 were not a call for the youth to take up arms, says Jacob Zuma.
Cape Judge President John Hlophe should step down from his post until the latest complaint against him has been resolved, according to the Cape Bar Council. ”It would be untenable for Judge Hlophe to continue in office pending the determination of the complaint by the Judicial Services Commission,” the council said on Tuesday.
Cape Town Judge President John Hlophe must step down, political parties said on Sunday. Hlophe is accused of attempting to influence the Constitutional Court’s decision over search-and-seizure raids carried out by the Scorpions on properties of Jacob Zuma and French arms manufacturing giant Thint.
It is possible that the crime-fighting Scorpions may not be incorporated into the South African Police Service by June, African National Congress national executive committee Siphiwe Nyanda said on Thursday. He was speaking at a seminar hosted by the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria.
Opposition parties on Monday criticised President Thabo Mbeki’s assessment of Zimbabwe’s elections. Mbeki’s remarks, made in Britain on Sunday, indicated he was either woefully out of touch with reality in Zimbabwe or he was attempting to ”deliberately mislead the world’s media”, the Democratic Alliance’s Dianne Kohler-Barnard said.
Senior African National Congress leader Tokyo Sexwale has called on President Thabo Mbeki to explain his involvement in the controversial multibillion-rand arms deal, a media report said on Sunday. Sexwale made an impassioned plea to a hushed ANC national executive committee meeting on Friday for Mbeki "to take the ANC into his confidence".
Patricia de Lille’s Independent Democrats (ID) are calling on the African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance to join them in setting up a multiparty committee to debate party political funding. ID chief whip Lance Greyling said on Monday: "South Africans have been exposed to scandal after scandal when it comes to party funding."
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/ 27 February 2008
A racist video — featuring University of the Free State employees on their knees eating food that had been urinated upon — was widely condemned by various institutions and political parties on Wednesday. The video, made by members of the Reitz men’s residence on the Bloemfontein campus, came to the attention of the public on Tuesday.
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/ 14 February 2008
”A disgrace”, ”Answers needed” and ”Crushing more than the Scorpions” was how some newspaper editorials reacted on Thursday to Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula’s announcement in Parliament that the Scorpions would be dissolved.
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/ 12 February 2008
Independent Democrats (ID) leader Patricia de Lille on Tuesday moved a motion calling on President Thabo Mbeki and his Cabinet to resign over the energy crisis. Speaking in the National Assembly during debate on Mbeki’s State of the Nation address, she said the ID has lost confidence in the government and its leaders.