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Dear Editor The DA notes the recent announcement by NSFAS that it is conducting a legal review into its student accommodation management and third-party partnerships. While this step is welcome, it comes far too late for the thousands of students who have already endured evictions, unsafe living conditions, and severe academic disruption due to delayed …
Dear Editor The DA has strongly championed the goal of non-racialism as a core value of our party. There is no place for race based division in South Africa, no matter from who or from where it comes. The DA expects that this matter will be dealt with in line with the same standards as …
The following is a speech extract by Siviwe Gwarube MP, delivered today at a march led by the DA in Gugulethu against GBV: We march here today in remembrance of the women of ‘56 who marched against an unjust apartheid government that didn’t see them as citizens worthy of protection and dignity. 69 years later, …
Dear Editor Minister Parks Tau’s decision to sideline one ANC-linked bid for the lotto licence due to conflict-of-interest concerns, only to award it to another bid linked to the Deputy President’s family, raises far more questions than answers. The DA will continue to seek answers on this clearly flawed process through our PAIA application and …
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes the gazetting of two sets of draft regulations under the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act for public comment. These include: Draft School Admissions Regulations, and Draft Regulations on the Determination of School Capacity. This marks a critical milestone in the journey from policy adoption to practical implementation, …
Dear Editor Yesterday, PRASA unlawfully blocked me, a sitting Member of Parliament, from conducting an oversight inspection at its Braamfontein yard and train carriage store. This yard is at the centre of a R7.5 billion train refurbishment scandal. I was joined by DA councillors from the City of Johannesburg to assess the state of PRASA’s …
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes the bold corruption-busting move by Minister Dean Macpherson as he lays criminal charges against suspended IDT CEO Tebogo Malaka, who featured in a video yesterday passing a brown envelope of R60 000 to a journalist. But as this corruption-busting move from the DA Minister takes place, the DA …
Company owner Philip Krawitz denies funding Israel’s army
Large chunk of R114-million fund to go to administrators
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance (DA) condemns the ANC’s latest manoeuvre to shield Defence Minister Angie Motshekga from accountability over the missing R813 million earmarked for SANDF soldiers deployed to the DRC. This week, Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) Chairperson, Malusi Gigaba, issued a contradictory and evasive statement in which he effectively confirmed that …
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance (DA) can today reveal that the Department of Defence spent R33 999 000 on a charter flight to transport over 200 SANDF personnel, including senior generals and students, to Havana, Cuba, for a graduation ceremony that served no operational or strategic value to South Africa. Documents in our possession confirm …
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance (DA) is appalled by the deeply offensive and race-baiting content of the Open Chats Podcast, that went viral on TikTok. In this episode, the hosts engage in despicable stereotyping of coloured people, including an abhorrent discussion questioning whether coloured people engage in sexual activity with their siblings, and describing coloured …
Dear Editor The DA notes Minister of Defence Angie Motshekga’s statement, which admits that she is failing to account to Parliament for the serious problems within the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). The DA has repeatedly been calling on the Minister of Defence to account to Parliament over the deadly DRC deployment, but the …
Dear Editor Yesterday I submitted a formal Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) application to the Department of Water and Sanitation, after months of silence from Minister Pemmy Majodina. Despite the Minister’s public acknowledgment that a probe into the escalating costs of Phase 2 of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) would be conducted, …
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance (DA) objects to the ill-conceived procedurally irregular proposal to change the names of Port Alfred and Alexandria and will take the matter up in national government. Renaming Port Alfred, which is an international tourism hub, and Alexandria to iCoyi/iQoyi/iCawa and Nkosi Chungwa/eMnyameni, respectively, would deal a devastating blow to the …
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance (DA) can reveal that board members at the Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services SETA (merSETA) were paid a staggering R6.29 million in the 2023/24 financial year, on top of the Chairperson’s separate remuneration of R924,000. This makes it one of the most expensive boards in the entire SETA system; three …
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance has today written to the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation to clarify the legal status of the South African Hajj & Umrah Council (SAHUC) after it has made an announcement that all South African hajj pilgrimage tour operators would have to work directly under SAHUC from the coming season …
Dear Editor A DA oversight inspection today has confirmed a despicable reality: racial-classification rules are in full swing in Deeds Offices across South Africa. At the DA oversight visit to the Cape Town Deeds Office today, we witnessed first-hand how citizens are being compelled to declare their race in writing, through the now-mandatory “Form LLL” …
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes the official commencement of Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee established to investigate explosive allegations by Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi into political interference, corruption, and systemic failures within the South African Police Service (SAPS). The committee, which held its first sitting today and elected its chairperson, has until 31 October …
Dear Editor Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s visit to the Free State is nothing more than a self-serving PR exercise designed to distract from his own scandals and the ANC’s decades-long destruction of the province. This is the same Deputy President who was this week found guilty by Parliament’s Joint Ethics Committee for failing to declare …
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance (DA) seeks to remove the gap in our law that allows impeached judges and chapter 9 heads from being members of our national, provincial or local legislatures and councils, through a DA-sponsored Private Members Bill. The DA calls on interested parties to submit public comments on the proposed Bill. The …
Dear Editor Yesterday, as DA Federal Leader, I visited the town of Douglas in the Siyancuma Municipality in the Northern Cape – a community suffering the devastating consequences of neglectful governance and political mismanagement. Across Siyancuma, residents are burdened with staggering unemployment rates, collapsing services, and the indignity of outdated sanitation systems, including bucket toilets …
Dear Editor The interventions announced by Ministers Parks Tau and Ronald Lamola earlier today demonstrate that neither will take accountability for the 30% tariff imposed on South African exports to the United States of America in the absence of a solid trade deal. Whereas our Southern African Development Community (SADC) neighbours have managed to negotiate …
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Fetakgomo Municipality has consistently warned the ANC caucus to adhere to the prescripts of the Local Government: Municipal Structures Act, the Municipal Systems Act, and the Standing Rules of Order of Council. These warnings were regrettably ignored. On 3 June 2025, the Limpopo High Court ruled that the …