‘Desperate’ DA campaign rebrands ANC logo in NP colours
The official opposition's attempt to inform younger voters about its multi-decade anti-apartheid struggle has included a few low blows which the ANC was quick to denounce.
View ArticleDA Parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko to talk in London
Lindiwe Mazibuko will give a number of public addresses in London this week
View ArticleRamphele in London to share her new political party’s vision
Dr Mamphela Ramphele, founder of new political party Agang South Africa, speaks in London this week on ANC’s governance failures and role of fear as a determinant in SA politics - in what is already...
View ArticleHelen Zille talks elections 2014 in London next week
Helen Zille will talk on ‘Elections 2014: will it be South Africa's turning point?’ on Wednesday 19 June.
View ArticleJulius Malema to set up his own political party
Julius Malema is eager to create an alternative political platform made of "radical militants"
View ArticleIs Julius Malema’s new party “political suicide”?
Julius Malema's new political platform, the Economic Freedom Fighters, is not about South Africans' welfare but simply a product of personal frustration, anger, and egocentricity, some of his former...
View ArticleAgang SA will flounder unless it finds a name for its ideology
As Business Day analyst Gareth van Onselen has pointed out, political parties do not deserve our votes until they have nailed their ideological colours to the wall. Between now and 2014, Agang SA...
View ArticleMalema’s EFF calls to eliminate ‘unnecessary’ national borders in Africa
The Economic Freedom Fighters will advocate the ultimate integration of the African continent by eliminating national borders, according to its founding manifesto.
View Article“What’s there to hide?”: Ramphele declares net worth and calls on Zuma to do...
Leader of newly formed opposition party Agang, Mamphele Ramphele has made clear her party's stance on corruption and calls upon South Africa's leader, President Jacob Zuma, to declare his assets after...
View ArticleSouth African government could be spying on your emails – legally
South Africa's wayward spooks and eavesdroppers operate without much in the way of oversight - and sweeping powers, and secret budgets. Are South Africans (at home and abroad) more watched than US...
View ArticleSouth Africans’ right to vote abroad set to become law
Proposed amendments to Electoral Act will see 2009 Constitutional finding applied in full, allowing South Africans to vote wherever they are on Election Day in 2014.
View ArticleDA launches Blue the Network for Young Professionals in London
The Democratic Alliance held an evening at the Liberal Club in London to launch Blue the Network and engage with young South Africans.
View ArticleMalema’s Economic Freedom Fighters officially registered as political party
Attempts to stop South Africa recgonising the EFF as an official party are in ruins as Julius Malema's place to run in the 2014 elections is cemented.
View ArticleANC supporters assault DA member in contested Tlokwe municipality
ANC supporters assaulted a Democratic Alliance member who had supported a DA candidate to replace the ANC mayor in the hotly-contested Tlokwe (former Potchefstroom) municipality on Wednesday.
View ArticleNational Assembly approves bill giving global South Africans the vote
As the 2014 elections draw nearer, the National Assembly has approved the Electoral Amendment Bill, despite protests from the DA.
View ArticleTen ways international South Africans can sway the 2014 election
Whether you have the vote by Election Day, and whether you are reading this in Putney, Perth or Port Elizabeth, it's your election - here's why...
View ArticleWhite South Africans have prospered since 1994 – SAIRR
Poverty is down, incomes are up, and white South African unemployment is lower than that in the UK - yet Red October, and a number of readers, contend that whites, particularly farmers, are being...
View ArticleAs DA grows – and grows up – BEE looms as political fault line
Party stalwarts and some provinces see the DA's embrace of a new Employment Equity bill as a betrayal of its fundamental identity in the hopes of short-term electoral gain
View ArticleKnow your party: what does the ACDP have to say to expat Saffas?
We speak to the Hon. Jo Ann Downs, MPL for Kwa-Zulu Natal, about the African Christian Democratic Party's vision for South Africa and for its sons and daughters who are making their lives beyond the...
View ArticleIEC scrambles to register 2m more South Africans before 2014
While the youth and chiefly rural provinces are lagging in voter registration, the IEC has mobilised more resources and manpower than before to ensure that at least two million currently unregistered...
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