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Dear Editor This week, the Democratic Alliance marks a major milestone: The 25th anniversary of the party’s founding, and 25 years of committed service to the people of South Africa. On Tuesday, 24 June 2025, the Party will celebrate our 25th birthday – a quarter-century of political progress: From building a strong official opposition, to …
Dear Editor The DA has vocally opposed job-destroying legislation and policies such as the Employment Equity Amendment Act, the Expropriation Act, the BBBEE Act and the Mineral Resources Amendment Bill, among others, because they are all anti-growth and this economy must grow for jobs to be created. Now, the Department of Health has announced its …
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance (DA) will write to the Chairperson of the Police Portfolio Committee to request that the Minister of Police urgently appear before the Committee to explain why senior SAPS officials misled Parliament about the omission of gender-based violence (GBV) statistics in the latest national crime report. This is not a technical …
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance (DA) will hold a watching brief in the Durban High Court, in the seminal case brought by TOYOTA South Africa’s Japanese insurer, for the enormous financial losses they suffered due to infrastructure failures of various government and state role-players in 2022. The DA sees this as potentially precedent-setting, enforcing financial …
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance (DA) celebrates the apex court’s achievements of the last 30 years in dispensing justice and protecting the rights of South Africans; and calls for increased safeguarding of South Africa’s constitutional values. The Constitutional Court is the highest court in South Africa and was created in 1995 to protect human rights …
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance (DA) is concerned by the NPA’s withdrawal of charges against another accused in the prosecution against Thabo Bester. This marks the fourth instance of charges being dropped against an accused in the case – only half of the original 8 defendants will now stand trial in the matter. The DA …
Dear Editor In answer to a parliamentary question from the DA, the Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, revealed that the vacancy rates as of April 2025 for doctors, nurses, and radiographers were 9.42%, 14.22%, and 15.7%, respectively. Furthermore, yesterday, the Department of Health admitted in a meeting with Parliament’s Standing Committee on Appropriations (SCOA) …
Dear Editor A reply to a DA Parliamentary question has revealed, quite shockingly, that the Minister of Land and Rural Development is enforcing racial classification regulations in property transfers without a legal or legislative definition of “race” to underpin the compulsory classification requirement introduced. The DA sees this as being utterly flawed – a Minister …
Other universities in South Africa have passed resolutions criticising the war
Treasury may withhold funds if SASSA does not meet its conditions
This is a “pandemic which is wreaking havoc, is not being attended to properly and not being taken seriously enough”
Dear Editor The DA has today filed a supplementary ethics complaint against the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Nobuhle Nkabane, because shocking new information about the Minister’s conduct further misleading Parliament, has come to light. Following the disclosure by the Minister of the names of the panel tasked with appointing the Sector Education …
Dear Editor Outgoing PIC CEO Abel Sithole admitted that the asset manager did not implement its own disciplinary committee’s recommendation to fire company secretary Bongani Mathebula. It’s also not clear from the PIC’s evasive responses whether it implemented the Mphati Commission’s recommendation that the PIC Board examine Mathebula’s reinstatement. The PIC potentially misled parliament earlier …
Patrick Ntsokolo hopes to testify before the Human Rights Commission probe into the Stilfontein tragedy
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance calls on Labour and Employment Minister Nomakhosazana Meth to immediately scrap the proposed quotas that would severely restrict the employment of skilled foreign nationals in South Africa. These quotas threaten to slam the door shut on the skills that we need to transfer into our economy, which desperately needs much …
Dear Editor The DA welcomes the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Plenary’s decision to upgrade South Africa’s progress on the final two reforms necessary to exit the FATF greylist. While this is an important step, the DA cautions the NPA and our financial regulators against complacency. Exiting the greylist remains subject to a site visit …
Dear Editor Seven years after the first Presidential Summit on Gender-Based Violence in 2018, South Africa still has no functioning Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) Council, despite repeated promises, signed legislation, and national commitments. At the Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities held on 17 June 2025, members expected a long-overdue briefing …
Dear Editor Reports today reveal that disaster management authorities formally requested South African Air Force (SAAF) assistance for flood relief in the Eastern Cape, but no help was forthcoming until yesterday – more than a week after the floods began. According to African Defence Review Director Darren Olivier, the request was made fairly early, but …
Dear Editor During the Police Parliamentary Committee held last week, SAPS remained silent when questioned about the exclusion of gender-based violence figures from the most recent crime statistics report. In a country where a woman is murdered every three hours, this omission is not just a statistical gap, it is a moral failure. The DA …
Dear Editor The DA will refer the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Nobuhle Nkabane, to the ethics committee for misleading the parliamentary portfolio committee on higher education when she stated that all members of the Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) Board Chairpersons Selection and Evaluation Panel were independent. This afternoon, the Minister …
Dear Editor The former National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) administrator, Freeman Nomvalo, failed to leave a handover document for the new NSFAS board. This despite earning R5.5 million in the 10 months and 2 weeks he was contracted to administer the Scheme, as revealed in answer to a written parliamentary question from the DA. …
Dear Editor The DA in the Western Cape is outraged by the latest example of rot within the South African Police Service: a SAPS constable caught working with gangsters has escaped with barely a slap on the wrist, and the Police Commissioner himself signed off on it. This was confirmed to the DA in official …
The following speech was delivered by the Leader of the Democratic Alliance, John Steenhuisen, in Mahushu, outside Hazyview, in Mpumalanga today: Today is Youth Day — a day of remembrance, bringing sharp focus onto the important role of youth in driving change. We remember the courage of the 1976 generation who stood up against injustice …
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance (DA) is deeply concerned by the political circus that unfolded during a special sitting of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Transport on Wednesday evening. What should have been a focused and serious engagement on the crisis engulfing the Road Accident Fund (RAF) was derailed by opportunistic political interference enabled by the …