Listening to politicians talking kak all day while pointing fingers at each other don’t inspire much confidence in the future.
The DA leader’s comment about his ex-wife during an appearance on ‘Podcast and Chill’ yesterday has led to swift criticism online.
A City of Johannesburg Council meeting devolved into violence towards the end of the 12-hour sitting, with proceedings suspended in the early hours of Thursday morning.
WhatsApp messages allegedly sent from now-suspended provincial community safety MEC Albert Fritz to young females on work trips have come to light.
Shell is facing a public backlash with regards to its plans to carry out a seismic survey along the Wild Coast, and our political system enters a new cycle of dishonesty.
The 70-year-old says she was “frogmarched” out of an Eastern Cape voting station, with the officer who did so assaulting her.
It’s still early days, with many more votes to be counted, but it’s predicted that the DA will retain control of Cape Town.
Current Bonteheuwel ward councillor Angus McKenzie’s campaign ad involves ‘Ghostbusters’, questionable toilet hygiene, and violence.
DA MP Mat Cuthbert claimed the robbery was similar “to a James Bond movie scene” and believed that sensitive information had been stolen.
On November 1, South Africans take to the polls for our local government elections.
JP Smith, the City of Cape Town’s mayoral committee member for safety and security, is being widely criticised for comments he made yesterday.
One can always rely on the ANC to soil its own bed, and that’s very much the case with the local government elections just around the corner.
64-year-old Nora Grose, a DA ward councillor in Cape Town, appeared in court yesterday on charges of fraud and money laundering.
The DA’s Gauteng leader, Solly Msimanga, was left with a bloody mouth and a cut above his eye following an altercation in Benoni yesterday.
Dubbed Super Wednesday, there were around 100 wards across the country being contested in the by-elections. Preliminary vote tallies paint a worrying picture for the DA.
Zapiro has had the knives out for Helen Zille for a while now, so you knew he was going to come hard at the recent elective congress results.
The DA wrapped up its elective congress this weekend, with John Steenhuisen and Helen Zille emerging as two of the big winners. Many believe that’s bad news for the long-term future of the party.
Another prominent DA member has quit the party, saying the party is “captured”, with a powerful cabal using whatever means necessary to root out dissenting voices.
Things we’ve learnt from Parliament this week – the liquor store is probably not the best place from which to attend virtual meetings.
It’s been around six weeks since Helen Zille last tweeted, but that doesn’t mean she can’t still give the ANC a piece of her mind.
Calling her a “reactionary unguided missile that is systematically destroying her party from the inside”, du Preez outlined why Helen Zille’s recent tweets will prove damaging in the long run.
Another day, another round of bickering, infighting, and drama caused by the DA’s federal council chairperson.
In his weekly letter to the nation, Ramaphosa laid out the tough times ahead, whilst the DA put forward a list of demands that includes immediately ending the lockdown.
There is no love lost between former Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba and the DA, although Helen Zille says he only has himself to blame.
New research by Ipsos and Citizen Surveys shows that the DA is “in freefall”, and losing supporters at a rate of knots.
Having spent many years laughing at their wisecracks together, and slapping each other on the back, the knives have now come out.
2020 is another bumper year for some of South Africa’s biggest political names, and could go a long way to shaping this country for years to come.
Technically, they’re contesting the position of interim party leader at the DA’s special federal council meeting next weekend, but a win now will go a long way to securing the job.
Mmusi Maimane is gone, Helen Zille is back, and those who remain within the party structures are doing their utmost to show that things are all fine on the home front. Not everyone agrees.
Patricia de Lille couldn’t help but revel in Mmusi’s resignation, releasing a statement and then singing a song aimed at the former DA leader.