Will the DA become an anglicised FF+?
With the resignation of its top leaders, values are swiftly shifting for South Africa’s main opposition party, reinforcing perceptions that it cannot abide black people in power.
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Cartoon | Colonial Legacy
In this week’s cartoon by Carlos, former Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille makes a dramatic return in an effort to restore the party’s core values.
Alex residents vote grudgingly, hoping for jobs
Despite poor living conditions and feeling let down by the government, voters in the northern Joburg township still made their mark in the hope that jobs and houses will follow.
Why the SACP is sticking with the ANC
Solly Mapaila gave three key reasons why his party remains allied to the ANC, despite significant organisations of the working class and the poor breaking with the ruling party.
Opposition parties slug it out
In the last weekend before elections, the two largest opposition parties, the DA and EFF, reminded voters of their respective manifesto promises. United on ANC corruption, they are poles apart on almost everything else.