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The road to the 2024 elections: Four possible scenarios

If the ANC does not have an outright majority, the options are: a government of national unity, an opposition coalition, an ANC coalition and a grand coalition

  • Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
5 min read
Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille has sent a letter to the Independent Development Trust board notifying the chairperson of her decision to dissolve the entity. (David Harrison/M&G)
CABINET

How Auntie Patty became Minister De Lille

The appointment is a massive boost to De Lille who resigned from the DA in October last year

  • Lester Kiewit
3 min read
Good Leader Patricia De Lille said she stands by her comments that her party will cooperate with government when it is performing well, and not just oppose government for the sake of it. (David Harrison/M&G)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

GOOD welcomes Minister De Lille

Former Cape Town mayor Patricia De Lille was announced as President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Public Works Minister in Pretoria on Wednesday.

  • Lester Kiewit
2 min read
The GOOD party told the M&G it would not preempt the final results, but is feeling positive. (David Harrison/M&G)
2019 ELECTIONS

Elections 2019: With 4.6-mil votes counted, GOOD is feeling good

South Africans headed the polls on Wednesday to elect the country’s sixth democratic administration

  • Sarah Smit
2 min read
The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has urged eligible citizens to make use of its online registration platform to minimise long queues . (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ACM

​Record number of political parties contesting 2019 polls

Forty-eight parties will appear on the national ballot in 2019, 19 more than those registered in 2014

  • Natasha Marrian
2 min read
Patricia de Lille’s new party, Good, may disrupt the Democratic Alliance’s hold on the Western Cape if it forms a coalition with other opposition parties. (Esa Alexander/Business Day/Gallo Images)
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE

De Lille still miffed by DA’s actions

But she has stepped back from making a direct challenge while her Good party weighs its chances

  • Lester Kiewit
4 min read
Regarding corruption, De Lille said: “All criminals should be put in jail, and not in Parliament. If we do that now, half of Parliament will be gone.” (David Harrison/M&G)
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

De Lille’s party wants to turn government on its head

​Patricia de Lille announced the leadership of her GOOD party on Sunday and shed some light on what policy directions her party will take

  • Jan Gerber
3 min read
Patricia de Lille’s GOOD party will be contesting the 2019 elections nationally and in all the nine provinces. (Netwerk24/Adrian de Kock )
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE

De Lille is back for ‘GOOD’

The former Cape Town mayor dismissed concerns over the viability of her new political movement

  • Agency
4 min read