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Cape ANC contest takes shape

Article Staff Reporter - 4 Feb 2011

Candidates supporting Mcebisi Skwatsha have taken the top positions in both the Boland and Southern Cape regional executives.

Diplomatic posts aim to end Cape division

Article Mandy Rossouw - 3 Sep 2010

Two new ambassadors-designate from the Western Cape have been added to the diplomatic corps in order to purge the province of its warring factions.

Political stereotyping plays fast and loose with the truth

Article Staff Reporter - 3 Sep 2010

We believe in the “do some things yourself” approach. No country has ever significantly reduced poverty without it, argues DA leader Helen Zille.

Zille’s plans to slice away red tape

Article Lynley Donnelly - 30 Jul 2010

Zille has sent President Jacob Zuma 70 pages of recommendations for amendments to the "brick wall of bureaucracy, law and regulation".

Past could cost Rasool US posting

Article Mandy Rossouw - 2 Jul 2010

Allegations of brown envelopes to journalists may cost ambassador-designate job.

ANC makes up to bridge divides in Western Cape

Article Staff Reporter - 26 Feb 2010

The Western Cape ANC has dropped charges against its former provincial chief whip Max Ozinsky and ANC MP Ebrahim Rasool.

ANC faces an uphill battle in the Western Cape

Article Staff Reporter - 19 Feb 2010

It often does not seem that the ANC fully appreciates the working-class and poor profile of the coloured population in the Western Cape .

Nothing wrong with this picture

Article Staff Reporter - 19 May 2009

Helen Zille: the DA will increasingly focus on this hidden realm, which men claim women may not speak about.

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