The fire that destroyed SA is the ANC government which allowed the looting and stealing of taxpayers’ money, says the FF+ The FF+ on Thursday left the parliamentary precinct disappointed, saying President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the…
DA leader John Steenhuisen says there is no good or bad faction in the ANC, but rather South Africans have been misled to believe there are two factions in the ANC and the “good” one is righting the wrongs of the “bad” one. Steenhuisen…
The DA has lost its court bid to overrule the government’s decision to close Garden Route beaches for the December holidays. The Western Cape High Court handed down the judgment on Tuesday. “While we are disappointed by the ruling in…
Finance minister Tito Mboweni recently tweeted himself into hot water when he accused DA “loud mouths” of spreading misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine, saying he would ask EFF leader Julius Malema to “deal with them.” The minister…
DA leader John Steenhuisen has challenged leader Julius Malema to give up his “police security detail” after the EFF leader’s recent outburst about the police. During a weekend webcast hosted by the party’s new spokesperson‚ Siviwe…
The DA and co-operative governance & traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma are set to butt heads in the high court in Cape Town on Friday over hair and beauty. The opposition party has hauled Dlamini-Zuma before court over…
Newly elected DA interim leader John Steenhuisen said on Sunday that he did not “backstab” Mmusi Maimane by going after his job. Steenhuisen was appointed twice by Maimane as his chief whip in parliament, first in 2014 and again in May.…
John Steenhuisen has been elected as the interim leader of the DA. Steenhuisen beat Gauteng MPL Makashule Gana in a hotly-contested race to replace Mmusi Maimane as party leader. Steenhuisen had been a hot favourite to take over after he…
Former president Thabo Mbeki has weighed in on recent developments in the DA, calling them concerning. Mbeki said he understood Mmusi Maimane’s resignation, in particular, to be linked to racism. “In this context, I wish to emphasise…
An East London woman is suing the DA for R10m for, she says, interviewing her for a councillor position in a toilet. DA member Ntombenhle Rulumeni claims that two party officials escorted her to a toilet at an East London golf course,…
Public hospitals have become a death-trap for the poor‚ says Refiloe Nt’sekhe of the Democratic Alliance. The party has produced this checklist of the top eight problems that it says require urgent intervention‚ following inspection…
DA leader Mmusi Maimane has requested that the petrol price‚ which skyrocketed to an unprecedented R15.79 per litre earlier this week‚ be dealt with in Parliament as a “matter of urgency”. “I have approached the Speaker of the National…
Mmusi Maimane and James Selfe have been nominated unopposed respectively as the candidates for the positions of leader and federal council chairperson of the Democratic Alliance. However‚ it will be a three-horse race between incumbent…
By Nomahlubi Jordaan Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba says Cosatu’s planned national strike on Wednesday should also go to the Gupta residence in Saxonwold. “Unfortunately‚ COSATU’s planned strike fails to take the protest to the…
The DA’s federal executive committee has suspended councillor Sharon Peetz‚ the City of Johannesburg’s fired member of the mayoral committee for economic development‚ from party activities pending the outcome of an investigation by the…
