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Newly elected DA provincial leader in the Western Cape Ivan Meyer aims to gain 60% of the electoral vote in the province by 2014.
GLYNNIS UNDERHILL

‘Hard worker’ Meyer elected DA leader in W Cape

Newly elected DA provincial leader Ivan Meyer has said he is determined to export the successes of the Western Cape to the rest of the country.

  • Glynnis Underhill
5 min read
Several DA members are unhappy that outgoing Western Cape party leader Theuns Botha.
ANDISIWE MAKINANA

DA chafes about leader who won’t go

Controversy is brewing within the Democratic Alliance about outgoing leader Theuns Botha’s desire to be the new leader’s second-in-command.

  • Andisiwe Makinana
5 min read
Western Cape health MEC Theuns Botha said UTi Pharma underestimated the complexity of the contract.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Chronic start for drug dispenser

The health department is sticking by its new supplier of medicine, UTi Pharma despite teething problems.

  • Glynnis Underhill
4 min read
CYCIL HARTELL

The Cape region’s foetal flaw

Research reveals that one out of ten children in the worst-affected rural areas of the Western Cape suffer from foetal alcohol syndrome.

  • Ina Joubert Guest Author
  • Mary Clasquin-Johnson
  • Cycil Hartell
2 min read
AFRICAN MUSLIM PARTY

Reports of new evidence in Cape Town spy saga

New evidence in the Cape Town spy saga details secret meetings involving city-funded spies and wire-tapping, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) reported on Friday.…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
BADIH CHAABAN

Chaaban offered me cash and a woman, says DA leader

Controversial Cape Town councillor Badih Chaaban offered the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) Western Cape leader Theuns Botha R200 000 in cash and a woman in a floor-crossing bribe,…

  • Ben Maclennan
3 min read