Government needs to take bold decisions and implement tougher measures to get the economy to recover, the DA said on Wednesday. “It is a difficult time for South Africa, that is why we need bold and strong leadership. Globally, other markets are starting to recover,” Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Mmusi[…]
The Democratic Alliance on Sunday demanded that President Jacob Zuma pay back the money spent on his Nkandla homestead and nobody else. “The DA rejects the notion that any person can pay back any portion of the R246 million public funds used for upgrades at… Nkandla, other than President Zuma[…]
The energy department’s commitment to complete transparency over the nuclear agreement with Russia is an empty promise, the Democratic Alliance said on Wednesday. The department had said earlier “no information of relevance to the public will be withheld” with regards to the nuclear build programme. DA MP Lance Greyling said[…]
The proposed upgrade to the Parliamentary Precinct at a cost of about R1.4 billion will be opposed by the Democratic Alliance, it said on Sunday. “The national fiscus faces massive pressure and a rising deficit,” DA chief whip John Steenhuisen said in a statement. “We can’t afford to splurge on[…]
The validity of the recently released annual crime statistics was called into question by the Democratic Alliance on Tuesday. “The DA will today write to the Minister of Police, Nathi Nhleko, requesting he immediately table the 2013/2014 crime statistics… before Parliament so that the portfolio committee on police can assess[…]
The African National Congress won 10 of the 11 wards contested in Wednesday’s by-elections, with the Democratic Alliance winning one, the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) said on Thursday. The elections saw the ANC take two wards, one from an independent candidate and another from the DA. “From an independent[…]
The Democratic Alliance marched to the Oudtshoorn Municipality on Monday morning in protest against alleged mismanagement of the area. DA Western Cape leader Ivan Meyer said a memorandum was handed to Mayor Gordon April. The document listed examples of “gross mismanagement” and “dirty tricks” allegedly employed by the African National[…]
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille asked supporters on Wednesday to donate money to the party to help fund further legal action around the so-called spy tapes. “The DA spent five years [and] over six court hearings, seeking to obtain the ‘spy tapes’ which the National Prosecuting Authority used to drop[…]
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema and his fellow EFF MPs on Wednesday made good on a threat to block all motions in the National Assembly, effectively halting the business of the House. The party blocked all motions from being read out in the House in an apparent tit-for-tat response[…]
The ANC is not worried about the “revelations” the DA claimed to have found in the contents of the so-called “spy tapes”, it said on Tuesday. Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille’s assertions that the tapes provided enough evidence to apply for a review of the withdrawal of charges against President[…]
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