In the hours following the Democratic Alliance’s federal congress last weekend, party leaders boasted that the party had emerged more united and diverse than ever, insisting that the party’s detractors would now be silenced.
Indeed the floor at the Tshwane Events Centre was diverse. That same diversity was not reflected in the newly elected leadership. But what was also glaringly absent in the diverse gathering was the rise of a distinct DA identity.
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On the 12th of April the driver of a Translux bus between Welkom and Pretoria was pictured using her cell phone while operating the vehicle.
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A Port Elizabeth man has been arrested after he flung his child from the roof of his shack while resisting the demolition of the structure.
The horror scene played out in Joe Slovo informal settlement yesterday where police and metro police as well as members of the municipality were demolishing shacks built on municipal land.
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Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille is expected to give reasons to the Democratic Alliance on why she attended a memorial hosted by the Economic Freedom Fighters for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
DA Federal Executive chairperson James Selfe said that De Lille was required to consult the party before she attended the memorial service in Brandfort, Free State, where Madikizela-Mandela was banished by the apartheid regime.
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The former ANC MP claims she got wind of a desperate Zuma plot to declare a state of emergency and hang on to power.
On Monday on Facebook former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor repeated the rumour from earlier this year that former president Jacob Zuma had intended to arrest Cyril Ramaphosa instead of step down.
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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported that 412 of the 973 laboratory-confirmed listeriosis cases are babies less than 28 days old.
Of these neonatal cases, 396 had early-onset listeriosis within six days of their birth.
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The EFF leader says the media isn’t doing enough to ‘counter the rhetoric’ because ‘there is no case of any white person killed because we want land’.
Speaking at the EFF’s memorial service for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in Brandfort on Wednesday afternoon, EFF leader Julius Malema took the opportunity to further clarify his statements about land expropriation without compensation.
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His well-developed biceps may have saved his arm, believes the victim of a farm attack.Furthermore his previous army training and experience as a security officer may have saved his and his wife’s life, said Pieter Els from Hazyview.
Pieter and his wife Tessa were attacked in their farmhouse near Sabaan Holiday Resort on Friday night. It was the second attack they survived this year. The other occurred in February.
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There is no such thing as reversed apartheid, they say. The colour of a person’s skin doesn’t mean a thing in South Africa any longer, they say.
Racism is now a crime, they say.
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) has today laid criminal charges against ANC Secretary General and former Free State Premier, Ace Magashule, following allegations that he meddled in a housing project in the Free State to ensure that a company allegedly linked to his daughter secured a lucrative contract worth R150 million.
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ANC politicians that once ruled the City of Johannesburg have to count among the greatest illusionists of modern times.
This is because they successfully managed to fool millions of residents in the city into believing that, despite clear evidence witnessed daily of below par service delivery, the ANC in Johannesburg was somehow better than their counterparts around the country.
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The 16 escaped from the medium B department of jail by breaking down the bars before the window and breaking through a wall.
The facility, known as the Sun City jail, housed the 16 trial convicts. Seven of the escaped prison were awaiting trial for murder, three for rape, five for robbery and one for burglary.
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Democratic Alliance (DA) federal executive chairperson James Selfe has said that it was a majority black delegation at the party’s Federal Congress that elected the party’s leadership because it is a capable one.
In an interview on Monday morning following the DA’s elective congress at the weekend, Selfe responded to critics who said that the party’s leadership is not diverse.
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Democratic Alliance federal leader Mmusi Maimane has confirmed that the party’s newly adopted recall clause won’t be implemented retrospectively and is therefore unlikely to affect Cape Town mayor Patricia De Lille.
The clause which was adopted at the party’s federal congress on Sunday, grants the organisation the power………
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Former president Jacob Zuma has hit out at his detractors saying that he has been wounded by the people that he grew up with.
Zuma spoke outside the Durban High Court on Friday morning where his corruption case has been postponed.