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DA calls for load-shedding pause in three East Joburg wards
15th February 2024 The Democratic Alliance is calling for a temporary load-shedding suspension for wards 66, 67 and 118 in east Johannesburg as residents face a third... →
DA wants Ramaphosa to reverse deployment of 2 900 soldiers to DRC
By: Thabi Shomolekae 13th February 2024 The Democratic Alliance (DA) has criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to deploy 2 900 South African National Defence Force (SANDF)... →
2900 SANDF members will be sitting ducks in the DRC
13th February 2024 The decision by President Cyril Ramaphosa to deploy 2 900 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) members to the eastern Democratic Republic... →
DA: John Steenhuisen: Address by DA leader, during a Debate on the President’s State-of-the-Nation Address, Cape Town (13/02/2024)
13th February 2024 It was a place built on the South African Dream: the promise that her life would be better than the life of her parents, and that her children’s... →
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa aims for upbeat tone in annual address, but fails to impress a jaundiced electorate
12th February 2024 This year’s State of the Nation Address – delivered annually in February by South Africa’s president – was bound to be stuffed with electioneering... →
Once more into the breach: SADC troops in DRC
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 9th February 2024 The long-simmering conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is starting to boil over again. On 2 February, a South African... →
SONA: Without plans and entangled in the past
9th February 2024 The proclamation of false hope in the State of the Nation Address (Sona) of Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa emphasises the cruel contempt with which the ANC... →
Macky Sall throws Senegal’s democratic credentials into doubt
8th February 2024 Senegal’s President Macky Sall announced in early February that presidential elections, originally scheduled for 25 February, would be postponed... →
