The Western Cape High Court has dismissed the Democratic Alliance’s bid to have the swearing in of President Jacob Zuma’s new Cabinet ministers interdicted. Judge Owen Rogers ruled that the DA did not present a strong enough case based on facts for the court to intervene in the President’s prerogative[…]
President Jacob Zuma’s decision to fire Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas is an “act of complete state capture”, DA leader Mmusi Maimane has said. Zuma reshuffled his Cabinet in the early hours of Friday morning, sacking Gordhan, Jonas and Derek Hanekom. He also moved sports minister[…]
The DA has set a date for the first steps of a possible disciplinary inquiry into Western Cape Premier Helen Zille’s comments about colonialism, James Selfe, the chairperson of the party’s federal executive, said on Wednesday. The meeting will be held on Saturday, March 25. Based on a report of[…]
Parliament on Sunday rejected as “selective analysis, one-sided, and misleading allegations” that the institution spent over R11 million in organising and staging President Jacob Zuma’s state-of-the-nation (Sona) address on February 9. “Premier annual events held in Cape Town like Sona pump millions of rands into the economy of the City[…]
The DA has threatened to go to court on Friday after a powdery substance with effects similar to that of tear gas was used inside the National Assembly. The party said it will ask the court to review the actions of the government and speaker Baleka Mbete, after police officers[…]
The deployment of almost 450 soldiers to Parliament ahead of President Jacob Zuma’s state of the nation address on Thursday is a breach of the separation of powers‚ according constitutional law expert Pierre de Vos. He said: “In the wake of the decision of the president to deploy more than[…]
The African National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape has added its voice in questioning the resignation of Patricia de Lille as the leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Western Cape. ANC spokesperson in the Western Cape Jabu Mafu says De Lille’s decision is indicative of tensions within[…]
Two years ago, former Western Cape police commissioner Lennit Max lost the battle to run the Democratic Alliance in the Western Cape when almost 70% of the delegates charged with choosing a new leader voted against him. Max was the last man standing against Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille[…]
The DA says it will ask the Independent Electoral Commission to look at allegations that the ANC set up a covert election campaign to disempower opposition parties ahead of last year’s municipal vote. PR expert Sihle Bolani has claimed in a court affidavit that an ANC campaign team known as[…]
Last week, the Embassy of the State of Palestine in South Africa revealed that the Democratic Alliance (DA) had not communicated to the Embassy about DA leader Mmusi Maimane’s visit to Israel. Since the news broke that Maimane had gone to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the party has been widely[…]
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