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Cape ANC contest takes shape

Candidates supporting Mcebisi Skwatsha have taken the top positions in both the Boland and Southern Cape regional executives.

Diplomatic posts aim to end Cape division

Two new ambassadors-designate from the Western Cape have been added to the diplomatic corps in order to purge the province of its warring factions.

Political stereotyping plays fast and loose with the truth

Political stereotyping plays fast and loose with the truth

We believe in the “do some things yourself” approach. No country has ever significantly reduced poverty without it, argues DA leader Helen Zille.

Zille’s plans to slice away red tape

Zille has sent President Jacob Zuma 70 pages of recommendations for amendments to the "brick wall of bureaucracy, law and regulation".

Past could cost Rasool US posting

Past could cost Rasool US posting

Allegations of brown envelopes to journalists may cost ambassador-designate job.

ANC makes up to bridge divides in Western Cape

The Western Cape ANC has dropped charges against its former provincial chief whip Max Ozinsky and ANC MP Ebrahim Rasool.

ANC faces an uphill battle in the Western Cape

It often does not seem that the ANC fully appreciates the working-class and poor profile of the coloured population in the Western Cape .

Fingers pointed at Mantashe

ANC Western Cape leaders say the secretary general is partly to blame for their problems. Mandy Rossouw and Pearlie Joubert report

Axe hovers over W Cape ANC

An ANC report says infighting and internal racial divisions drove away the coloured vote, reports Pearlie Joubert.

A step backwards

Ferial Haffajee on Zille: while the ANC Youth League’s statements against her were pathetically patriarchal, so are her action and her words.

Nothing wrong with this picture

Helen Zille: the DA will increasingly focus on this hidden realm, which men claim women may not speak about.

Zille’s ‘sex pest’ safety minister

All four women who laid charges against Max — two of them senior police officers — worked with him.

Return of the white men

Helen Zille, who took her oath of office amid loud cheers, came into the legislature with 15 white men, four coloureds and two Africans.

Skwatsha vindicated

Almost a year after Skwatsha was stabbed in the neck during an ANC meeting in Worcester, ANCYL member Ndikho Tyawana appeared in court this week.

Jacob Zuma, guarded by heavies, wows the crowd with a little jig at the ANC’s manifesto launch at Khayelitsha Sports Stadium last month. Photo: David Harrison

No more two-thirds

An internal ANC survey predicts the ruling party can kiss the Western Cape goodbye.

A mother of a race

Political scientists suggest voters in the Western Cape are more likely to consider alternatives in this election.

Cape’s premier clean machine

After six months in the Western Cape premier’s office, Lynne Brown has still not made herself too comfortable behind the big desk.

Erasmus: Zille slams Vodacom

Cape Town mayor Helen Zille has accused cellphone giant Vodacom of helping the ANC-controlled Western Cape government to illegally spy on her.

New Western Cape cabinet announced

Newly appointed Western Cape Premier Lynne Brown announced her new cabinet this week.

No easy task for new W Cape premier

Lynne Brown is inaugurated on Friday as the Western Cape’s first female premier. She told Pearlie Joubert about her journey to her new corner office.