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The opposition’s new rock star has been making waves in Parliament with his can-do attitude, writes Marianne Thamm.
Perhaps we should view the recent volley of insults about self-confessed womanising and wild whore libidos as a lancing of a national boil.
People often tell DA leader Helen Zille that she is in the ”wrong party”. ”It’s madness,” she says. ”Of course I’m not - there’s no alternative.”
Bantu Holomisa elicited frenzied cheering at Cope’s recent national convention, underscoring his continued popularity with disaffected black voters.
Many charge that the ID is more of a one-person lobby group than an opposition party, but De Lille counters that it has grown both in membership terms
Marianne Thamm, Open Society Research Fellow for 2008, reports on new electoral volatility that poses a threat to the ANC’s overwhelming majority.
"What mobilised people for Zuma was the way he was fired as deputy president. People think it was done because he’s a Zulu".
Four provinces are gearing up for possible Congress of the People governments after a week of campaigning by leaders of the new party.
The growing flexibility of voter attitudes highlighted by research is good news for ANC rebels planning a new party to fight next year’s elections.
The European and American tradition of the political novel is deeply entrenched. From Emile Zola to Gore Vidal, the perceptions and attitudes of citizens in these smug old…
The European and American tradition of the political novel is deeply entrenched. From Emile Zola to Gore Vidal, the perceptions and attitudes of citizens in these smug old…
Now that the posturing and rhetoric that has dominated Western Cape politics in the two months prior to this week’s agreed compromise on the system of local government is over…
Everyone in Hout Bay agrees: the tipping-point was the murder of Gerhard Vergeer on Sunday March 13 last year. Vergeer, his wife and three children had arrived in the…
The crisis over the Cape Town mayoral system is coming to a head, with mayor Helen Zille set to meet Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi on Friday.…
University of Cape Town Professor Girish Kotwal, who used university laboratories to research an herbal concoction touted as a ”anti-HIV” remedy, has resigned from his position…
While same-sex partners will soon be able to marry legally, it seems increasingly likely that heterosexual couples will be able to choose from two marriage Acts to formalise…
In a surprise move Independent Democrats (ID) caucus leader Simon Grindrod this week came out in support of Cape Town mayor Helen Zille "as an individual" and as a city mayor…
Pinelands, a Cape Town suburb built in the 1920s to emulate a British rural idyll, has become the city’s most racially mixed neighbourhood. If you’re really lucky you might…
Rumours are flying that the Western Cape’s Local Government Minister, Richard Dyantyi, is planning to use municipal laws to remove Cape Town’s DA mayor Helen Zille from office…
‘Now that I’m in it, it’s not nearly so daunting,” says Cape Town mayor Helen Zille of the job she accepted with trepidation six months ago. Zille is perched on a couch in…
