Democratic Alliance

National Treasury Urged to Extend Cost-containment Rules

The National Treasury has come to the defence of the cost containment measures for local government, saying they promoted better governance and management of finances in municipalities.The department published the regulations last week, ...

Joburg Post·almost 5 years ago

Ramaphosa Named in Bosasa Report, Public Protector Confirms

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has confirmed in a letter to Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane that President Cyril Ramaphosa is implicated in her investigation into the R500,000 donation he received from Bosasa chief Gavin Wa...

Joburg Post·almost 5 years ago

Why South African opposition’s policy on racial inequality is out of sync with reality

Claiming, as South Africa’s official opposition the Democratic Alliance (DA) does, that policy must ignore race in South Africa, is like insisting that economic inequality should have been ignored in nineteenth century Europe. The par...

The Conversation Contributions ·over 3 years ago

DA Launches Economic Reform Tracker, To Assess President Ramaphosa's Performance.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has announced that they have launched an Economic Structural Reform Tracker aimed at assessing President Cyril Ramaphosa's performance since his inauguration. The tracker’s primary purpose will be to act as...

Phumzile Mavimbela·over 3 years ago

The DA says Students should not pay the price for NSFAS and UNISA’s poor administration 

The Democratic Alliance  Shadow Minister for Higher Education, Science & Technology Chantel King says the  The DA has written to the University of South Africa (UNISA) and the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) asking them ...

Phumzile Mavimbela·over 3 years ago

DA calls on DBE to release clear and succinct plan on teacher vaccination

The Democratic Alliance (DA) calls on the Department of Basic Education (DBE) to engage with the Department of Health to release a clear and succinct plan on what the vaccination process for teachers will look like as a matter of urge...

Phumzile Mavimbela·over 3 years ago

The DA Says President Ramaphosa is complicit in the SSA cover-up and must fire David Mahlobo.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) is calling upon President Cyril Ramaphosa to dismiss Deputy Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitisation David Mahlobo from his office. The opposition party says Mahlobo was responsible for the mass...

Phumzile Mavimbela·about 3 years ago

The DA Says Lamola And Fraser Must Explain In Parliament The Grounds For Zuma's Medical Parole.

The DA has written to the chairperson of the parliamentary portfolio committee on justice and correctional services, Bulelani Magwanishe, to request that the committee meets during the upcoming recess to deal with the matter of former Pr...

Phumzile Mavimbela·over 2 years ago

The Rise of John Steenhuisen: The Fall of The Blue Wave

As the dust settles on the Democratic Alliance’s elective conference that saw its interim leader, John Steenhuisen become the official federal leader of South Africa’s official opposition. Let me say from the start that his elections aff...

Musa Mdunge ·over 3 years ago

"The Minister of Finance’s annual Budget is another indication of a panicking ANC Government" - Democratic Alliance

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has described the 2024 Budget Speech by the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana as another indication of a panicking ANC government.

Neo Poho·2 months ago