UDM and Cope filed a security for costs application, demanding that Zuma pay R1-million upfront before the state capture court appeal can be heard.
Mkhwebane on Wednesday welcomed President Jacob Zuma’s appointment of a judicial commission of inquiry
The UDM wants President Jacob Zuma and his Cabinet to urgently spell out his plan for free higher education to avoid a "commotion" at registration.
The Constitutional Court has ruled that the National Assembly failed to put in place mechanisms to hold President Zuma accountable.
The UDM has called on government to convene an immediate summit, to clarify the ANC’s land expropriation decision.
In a move to fill vacant posts in Public Health and Corporate Services, Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Athol Trollip announced changes to his committee.
Tense relations between the DA and smaller opposition parties have threatening the opposition’s hopes of assuming power nationally in 2019
Trollip says the motion of no confidence against him is going to fail because it is an act of revenge by ousted deputy mayor, Bobani Mongameli
The UDM are arguing that a Fees Commission recommendation of an income contingency loans will create an army of debt-trapped graduates.
So far the ANC and the UDM have advocated for a fund to be managed by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)
The ANC is divided and the opposition parties are learning the art of compromise the hard way
The DA hopes ‘sanity will prevail’ in its coalition as the ANC moves to oust Jo’burg’s mayor
An urgent application by the United Democratic Movement has been struck from the roll for want of urgency and the party ordered to pay costs.
Smaller parties are feeling left out by the Democratic Alliance and the EFF has ambitions of its own
A fact-finding inquiry looking into the president’s conduct during the Nkandla debacle will force him to account for his actions, the ConCourt heard.
The expelled UDM official has fired a new salvo in the ongoing war between the coalition partners in the metro.
Leader Bantu Holomisa says the party will interdict the allegedly unlawful ousting of Nelson Mandela Bay deputy mayor Mongameli Bobani.
The Democratic Alliance says it’s committed to working with the United Democratic Movement but not with the deputy mayor ousted in no-confidence vote.
The coalition government in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro is on shaky ground following the dismissal of Deputy Mayor Bobani
Mmusi Maimane has called for the dissolution of Parliament following the failed motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma via secret ballot.
Mbete will address the media on the voting procedure to be followed when the motion of no confidence in the president is debated on 8 August.
The DA and UDM will meet to secure the Nelson Mandela Bay coalition.
Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi says Baleka Mbete’s reluctance to allow it hinders the possibility of ensuring that voting is done conscientiously.
But Jeff Radebe says the UDM is within its rights to ask the ConCourt to allow a secret ballot in Parliament.
The party argues that since the president is elected secretly, a vote of no confidence should be conducted in a similar manner.
It’s a tough challenge to weigh up constitutional imperatives with the dangers of judicial overreach.
The EFF said it will march to tell Zuma that the party is not happy that he is alive or president of the country.
Opposition parties have declared Wednesday a ‘national day of action’, marking the start of efforts to unseat Jacob Zuma.
Impeachments and votes of no confidence are more about politics than law.
The parliamentary inquiry into the SABC is about the broadcaster, not one man, according to members of the investigating committee
UDM leader Bantu Holomisa has requested that the public protector add further costs for non-security features built at Nkandla.
The United Democratic Movement has taken Ward 30, which had become vacant on the death of the previous ANC councillor.