Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen said last month that his party was aiming for 24%, but he told Eyewitness News that he would be happy with anything higher than in the last national elections.
Insiders said that a year into the job, he had failed to provide clarity on the direction he wanted to steer the DA in.
Mike Waters wrote a scathing attack on the DA, saying that he couldn’t continue promoting and defending a party capable of spineless treachery following the party's decision to remove its controversial banners in Phoenix.
The Democratic Alliance (DA)’s mayoral candidate for the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, Nqaba Bhanga, said that racially polarising election posters would not be put up in his city.
'Those posters stayed up for a very long time, it’s created a lot of damage already in the minds of people. It’s created anger and this is something that we must undo,' ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) asked gauteng Premier David Makhura to suspend or fire Cooperative Governance MEC Lebogang Maile over the Constitutional Court judgment, which found that the dissolution of the Tshwane Council was unlawful.
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen said that his party led when it came to service delivery.
The weekend saw the ANC deploying its president, Cyril Ramaphosa, to the DA-led Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, vowing to take control in a few weeks’ time while EFF leader Julius Malema was in his home province of Limpopo using his campaign to attack the governing party.
The Democratic Alliance (DA)’s Siviwe Gwarube said that new Health Minister, Joe Phaahla, needed to act swiftly on recommendations included in this report.
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said that the date for the announcement on the future of e-tolls in Gauteng could not be determined at this stage as discussions around funding for the system continued to take place.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has filed a complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) against Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande.
Political analyst Ralph Mathekga said that the Democratic Alliance (DA) still had many voters to convince.
Party leader John Steenhuisen said that the biggest failures in local government were in small municipalities, which should be a focus area.
It has instructed the State Attorney to deliver a notice to the Registrar of the Court and other parties that it would abide by the decision of the court on the matter.
IEC Chief Electoral Officer Sy Mamabolo has welcomed the Constitutional Court ruling, saying that the IEC acted within the confines of the law when it opened the candidate registration process.
On Monday, the apex court handed down a judgment dismissing an application by the Democratic Alliance (DA) and others to have the reopening of candidate nominations declared unconstitutional.
While the opposition has yet to make major national inroads against the historic party that brought Nelson Mandela to power in 1994, the ANC has been hemorrhaging votes over the years and stands to lose even more in the local elections, analysts and polls predict.
The ANC's Jessie Duarte said the IEC could not reopen voter registration without opening up candidate lists submission, because candidates are also registered voters.
