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Call to boycott DA over Maiden’s Cove plan

The City of Cape Town’s approach to building and development in the city could affect the DA’s performance at the polls next month. An online petition against the DA and mayor Patricia de Lille is calling on residents to boycott the party at the ballot box, if the city council[…]

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Cassim: ‘ANC’s Islamophobia wont go unchallenged’

In light of growing Islamophobia around the world, South African Muslims have remained relatively unscathed, living alongside members of all faiths. However, recent reports of Islamophobic remarks made against Democratic Alliance MP, Yusuf Cassim, suggests otherwise. Cassim was allegedly the victim of a barrage of insults made by members of[…]

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DA invites minister to see what R753 can buy

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has challenged Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini to join it on a shopping trip to test if R753 was enough to sustain an entire family for a month. In a reply to a DA parliamentary question, Dlamini said social grant beneficiaries should be able to live[…]

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DA calls for increase in welfare grants

Two months before local government elections, the Democratic Alliance on Wednesday launched a petition to pressure the government to increase welfare grants, saying the hikes announced by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan in the 2016 budget were negligible. “We encourage all South Africans to sign the DA’s petition to be handed[…]

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Maimane sets the record straight

Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane has rejected media reports that suggested that his predecessor Helen Zille was still in charge of the party based on an alleged intervention when a senior party leader from the Eastern Cape wanted to quit. Maimane told Parliament journalists that there had been “a lot[…]

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DA to apply for leave to appeal in Jiba case

Advocate Nomgcobo Jiba ought to be the subject of a commission of inquiry and be suspended from her position as the deputy National Director of Public Prosecutions. That was the reaction of DA shadow justice minister Advocate Glynnis Breytenbach to a ruling by the Western Cape High Court on Monday[…]

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Probe EFF MP’s k-word slur: DA

The Democratic Alliance on Tuesday said it would refer the alleged use of the word “kafir”, an arabic term meaning non-believer or infidel, by an Economic Freedom Fighters MP against one of its members to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and Parliament’s Ethics Committee. The altercation between EFF[…]

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Police deployed on a ‘bad formula’: analyst

Western Cape Premier Helen Zille has called the uneven distribution of police in the Western Cape as an act of sabotage saying that the Cape has less police resources compared to other provinces in the country. This comes as the province struggles to contain incessant gang violence, which has claimed[…]

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DA refers pro-Zuma MPs to ethics committee

The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Thursday said it had reported the Speaker of the House and African National Congress (ANC) MPs who voted to defend President Jacob Zuma to the Ethics Committee. “The DA has today returned to the scene of the crime, where the ANC Caucus and Speaker of[…]

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