Western Cape Politics

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

ANC Western Cape leaders say the secretary general is partly to blame for their problems. Mandy Rossouw and Pearlie Joubert report

An ANC report says infighting and internal racial divisions drove away the coloured vote, reports Pearlie Joubert.

Ferial Haffajee on Zille: while the ANC Youth League’s statements against her were pathetically patriarchal, so are her action and her words.

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

All four women who laid charges against Max — two of them senior police officers — worked with him.

Helen Zille, who took her oath of office amid loud cheers, came into the legislature with 15 white men, four coloureds and two Africans.

Almost a year after Skwatsha was stabbed in the neck during an ANC meeting in Worcester, ANCYL member Ndikho Tyawana appeared in court this week.

An internal ANC survey predicts the ruling party can kiss the Western Cape goodbye.