DA a 'resilient party of rules and procedure' – Zille . The leaderless Democratic Alliance (DA) is "a resilient party of rules, structures and procedures", party Federal Council (FedCo) chairperson Helen Zille said on Friday.

She announced in a statement ...

Sanef vs EFF: Equality court rules in party's favour in intimidation case . The Equality Court, sitting in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ruled against the South African National Editors Forum (Sanef) and five journalists in an application to interdict the Economic Fre...

AfriForum to privately prosecute ex Sars boss Moyane . Civil rights organisation AfriForum on Thursday announced that Advocate Gerrie Nel’s Private Prosecution Unit will seek to prosecute former South African Revenue Service commissioner Tom Moyane on char...

DA to convene Council to elect interim leader, chairperson . Reeling from the recent resignations of its leader Mmusi Maimane, City of Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba and party chairperson Athol Trollip, the Democratic Alliance (DA) will urgently convene a Fed...

At R175bn, govt's cumulative irregular spend now tops its annual budget for police and defence . The cumulative irregular expenditure incurred by government departments and public entities - up to and including the current financial year - now stands at R174.88-billion.

The "closing balance" fig...

Draft bill to amend property clause in Constitution may be ready by mid-December . A draft bill to amend section 25 of the Constitution to explicitly allow for the expropriation of land without compensation could be ready for gazetting before the end of the year, Parliament's House c...

Maimane expected to resign as DA leader at media briefing . Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane has decided to resign as federal leader of the DA, several well-placed sources in the party have confirmed to News24.

Maimane was expected to hold a pres...

Constitutional Court: Sections of Intimidation Act limit freedom of expression . In a unanimous judgment, the Constitutional Court has ruled that sections of the Intimidation Act are unconstitutional, finding that it limits the right to freedom of expression.

In the judgment, whi...

Ministerial task team AWOL at Parly meeting as council debt to Eskom swells . Ministers who serve as members of an inter-ministerial Eskom task team were absent at a scheduled Parliamentary committee meeting on Tuesday, where debt owed by municipalities to the the cash-strapped ...

Mashaba slams 'dysfunctional' Home Affairs on documentation of migrants . Outgoing Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba asked Parliament to help ensure that the "dysfunctional" Department of Home Affairs discharge its duties in terms of documenting foreign nationals.

He and h...