The signs were good for taking the relationship between opposition parties to the next level, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Saturday.
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/ 1 February 2010
Leaders of opposition parties will gather in Cape Town in March to talk about forming a united front in next year’s municipal elections, the ID says.
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/ 9 November 2009
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa on Monday called for a white paper to be drafted to deal with labour broking.
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/ 3 September 2009
ANC ministers could save themselves embarrassment about the luxury vehicles they drive by using standardised, state pool cars, says Bantu Holomisa.
Despite having been savaged at April’s polls, the UDM of Bantu Holomisa has tried to pull itself together and face the future.
Unity talks between opposition parties are under way in bid to challenge the ruling party at the polls, they said on Sunday.
The ANC was leading the race in eight of the nine provinces late on Thursday morning while the ruling party has also increased its lead over the DA.
Politicians warring for votes on the country’s lamp posts are decidedly unhappy at attacks on their carefully composed posters.
The ANC was absent from a debate among political parties about economic policies held on Wednesday at the University of Witwatersrand.
Opposition parties have accused Rhema of being biased towards the ANC after it refused to allow their leaders to follow in Jacob Zuma’s footsteps.
There is space in the electoral market. The only question is whether any opposition party can exploit the opportunity.
South Africa is becoming a banana republic under the ”new clique” in the ANC, United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa said on Tuesday.
Opposition parties on Tuesday slammed the release of convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik on medical parole.
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/ 21 February 2009
Now is the time to stop one-party dominance in South Africa, United Democratic Movement president Bantu Holomisa said on Saturday.
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/ 10 February 2009
As the year unfolds, BEE and employment equity are the most contested terrains. Here’s a snap-shot of where political parties stand on the issues.
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/ 23 January 2009
Judge Chris Nicholson has come under fire for supporting conspiracy theories that threaten not only the judiciary itself but political stability.
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/ 22 January 2009
Bantu Holomisa has complained to the AU that actions of the ANC and the government are breaking the fundamental principles of the union.
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/ 19 January 2009
The election lists the ANC compiled will be released next weekend when the national lists are finally put together by the national list committee.
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/ 21 October 2008
Wednesday October 8 was probably the worst day the United Democratic Movement could have chosen to launch its campaign.
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/ 20 October 2008
The African National Congress (ANC) has not gone to the dogs, but the dogs have left the party, said the ANC Women’s League on Monday.
Richmond’s former mayor recalls the town’s
low-grade war in the early 1990s with Niren Tolsi.
Corruption emerged after the ruling party invested billions on arms and weaponry, said Bantu Holomisa, leader of the United Democratic Movement.
The election fodder was wheeled out for a photo-opportunity at the Inkatha Freedom Party’s offices in downtown Durban this week.
The time has come for the president and premiers to be directly elected by voters, says United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa.
President Thabo Mbeki has failed to provide leadership and should be recalled from the presidency to make way for early elections, the South African Communist Party (SACP) said on Sunday. The SACP blamed Mbeki for a recent wave of violence against foreigners in which 62 people have been killed.
A Cabinet minister is one of 30 Swaziland businessmen who are to be investigated by the country’s main anti-corruption unit over how they amassed their fortunes. Prime Minister Absalom Themba Dlamini told Parliament earlier this week that a Cabinet minister had amassed more than 30-million emalangeni in his bank account.
Johannesburg businessman Hugh Glenister has instructed his legal team to apply to the Constitutional Court for an order to prevent the government from disbanding the Scorpions. This was after the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday struck his application from the roll, saying it did not have the jurisdiction to decide on the matter.
The government should appoint a commission of inquiry to probe the xenophobic attacks that have claimed at least 50 lives and left thousands of people homeless, the United Democratic Movement (UDM) said on Sunday. UDM president Bantu Holomisa said there was a need for a transparent inquiry that would analyse the attacks and remove suspicions that they were ”deliberate and orchestrated”.
Johannesburg businessman Hugh Glenister will likely hear next week whether his court bid to stop the government from disbanding the Scorpions has succeeded. The Pretoria High Court on Wednesday reserved judgement in his case, with Judge Willie van der Merwe indicating it was likely he would deliver judgement sometime next week.
President Thabo Mbeki abdicated his power in deciding to disband the Scorpions, the Pretoria High Court heard on Wednesday. United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa was in court listening as counsel for his and four other opposition parties argued that Mbeki and the Cabinet took their cue from the African National Congress on a decision to dissolve the Scorpions.
Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri expressed ”great concern” on Wednesday about the suspension of South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) CEO Dali Mpofu and head of news Snuki Zikalala. ”All will be done on [the minister’s] part to ensure the ability of the SABC to carry out its mandate,” she said.
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa on Monday asked President Thabo Mbeki to meet South Africa’s ”collective leadership” to discuss three critical matters of concern. In a letter to Mbeki, Holomisa said, firstly, that there was the question of South Africa’s involvement in resolving the tribulations of Zimbabwe.