Democratic Alliance federal council chairperson Helen Zille says people who live in shacks in the Western Cape have basic services that others don't have elsewhere in the country.
Eyewitness News understands the move was sparked by a discussion in the DA's Federal Council, where the role of both the Youth Ancillary and the DA Women's Network were up for debate.
It's widely expected that founder and president of ActionSA, Herman Mashaba, will announce former DA federal chair, Athol Trollip, as his latest recruit.
Zille was reacting to ActionSA's claims that its coalition partners are shortsighted for refusing an EFF proposal for its councillors to support the multi-party governments across Gauteng's metros.
The Democratic Allience’s Helen Zille accused the African National Congress (ANC) of using smaller parties like the DOP to split the opposition vote.
In a Facebook post on Monday, Helen Zille said that she was accused of canvassing voters waiting to cast their ballots at the Fernwood Park Primary School and summarily ejected from the voting station.
On Monday a television journalist was briefly detained by police, while DA federal leader Helen Zille was frog-marched out of a voting station.
It's alleged a voter who was waiting in the queue reported Helen Zille to the officials for campaigning.
DA Federal Council Chairperson Helen Zille said the metro could still be saved.
The DA's recent problems with its Phoenix posters, the wreck on the Gareth Cliff show and Helen Zille's return shows that racist and populist conservative politics work for the party, writes David Maimela.
Former Springbok coach and GOOD mayoral candidate Peter de Villiers says DA federal council chairperson Helen Zille is not playing by the rules required in a democracy.
The Democratic Alliance was in the Eastern Cape on 13 October 2021 for a protest against corruption ahead of the local government elections.
Yonela Diko appears to be hellbent on employing disingenuous arguments and a dubious agenda to try discredit the DA, writes DA MP Ghaleb Cachalia.
The Democratic Alliance is a party pretty much on life support, writes Yonela Diko.
Zille insisted she was merely speculating when she tweeted that information leaked was nothing short of a constitutional crisis.
Herman Mashaba's party, Action SA, has released a billboard with names and faces of various political party leaders with labels such as criminal, crook and fraud next to their names. He said that the refusal by media houses to flight the billboard amounted to censorship.
The Democratic Alliance (DA)’s Western Cape leader Bonginkosi Madikizela has been accused of allegedly lying about his qualifications on his CV.
In its weekly live broadcast, Federal Council chairperson Helen Zille said Ramaphosa had failed to table a detailed, costed and practical vaccine acquisition plan.
