Sanral respects Cape toll ruling

Sanral says it accepts the Western Cape High Court's decision to halt its planned Winelands toll project and will study the ruling to map the way forward.

• Cape tolls halted
• Cape toll project flawed - City
• Cape Town wants complete toll report

ANC defends Cosatu's stance on NDP

ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte says that Cosatu's critique of certain elements of the National Development Plan is not unjustified.

• Cosatu undecided on NDP
• Embrace NDP, urges government
• Zuma slams NDP critics

Construction cartels to learn their fate

Construction cartels could learn their fate on collusion allegations as early as June, the Construction Industry Development Board says.

• 'Construction cartel probes going well'
• Construction sector 'needs accountability'
• Commission finds cartel in glass sector

ANC says Cape is resistant to EE change

ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu says sluggish transformation in the South African labour market is disheartening, while singling out the Western Cape.

• Who occupies SA's top positions?
• Zille rejects EE figures in Cape govt
• Change on cards for equity laws

Cheer over new business council

The DA and Black Management Forum have welcomed the establishment of the Brics Business Council aimed at enhancing economic ties between member states.

• Motsepe to chair Brics council
• Brics to build partnerships
• Brics 'holds opportunities' for businesses

DA urges action on farm job cuts

SA needs a strategy to curb job losses in the agricultural sector, especially in the wake of farmers wanting to employ foreigners, the Democratic Alliance says.

• Rocketing costs threaten black farmers
• Minister welcomes R6.2bn for small farms
• Farm job cuts could grow to 200 000
• Cosatu: Farm job cuts are spiteful
• Small farmers will battle - employer body
• Hundreds of farmers ask for wage waiver

DA proposes disbanding departments

The DA has proposed, in an alternative national budget, disbanding several government departments and doing away with district municipalities.

• Facing up to fiscal constraints
• Call to relax tax laws for entrepreneurs
• Sacci: Gordhan must reassure investors
• Budget must restore business confidence
• Gordhan’s private equity poser
• Consumers give Gordhan tax wishlist

Cosatu demands probe into Zille, DA

Cosatu in the Western Cape wants Premier Helen Zille and the DA to be investigated after reports of alleged overcharging for Cape Town construction projects.

• Cape Town stadium construction probed
• 'Something rotten with Cape stadium'
• Cape Town mulls commercial stadium use

DA to complain about Limpopo govt

The DA will lay a complaint with the Public Protector against Limpopo government officials for allegedly awarding school feeding tenders to Malema's associates.

• Limpopo to stay under state control
• Returning Bokoni miners intimidated
• Miners crushed in Palaborwa rock fall

DA takes billing crisis to NCC

The Democratic Alliance met the National Consumer Commission to discuss the long-running billing crisis in Johannesburg.

• Eskom faces new power crisis
• Joburg says no to billing queries
• Joburg Metro tackles billing crisis

Everyone but govt upset over e-tolls

The Automobile Association has joined others who have vowed to fight Gauteng's e-tolls, amid government relief over the Constitutional Court ruling.

• Cosatu vows e-tolls revolt
• Judgment day for Gauteng e-tolls
• E-tolls: State not fighting public

Zille rubbishes job seekers' grant

A proposed job seekers' grant will incentivise young people to remain jobless, DA leader Helen Zille says.

• Zille: Give us half of youth subsidy
• Vavi: Zille using the unemployed
• Doubt about job seekers' grant

Jessica Leandra responds to DA letter

Former FHM model Jessica Leandra has responded to an open letter from the DA, saying she realises she has "brought this nation to its knees" after posting a racist remark on Twitter.

• SAHRC: 45 complaints against FHM model
• Model's racist tweet: Blown out of proportion?
• DA responds to models' racist tweets

DA: Hofmeyr comments 'repugnant'

The Democratic Alliance has strongly condemned recent "racist" comments by Steve Hofmeyr.

• Shout distances itself from Hofmeyr

DA: Scrap exchange controls

The DA has called for the abolition of exchange controls and bold and decisive action in the fight against corruption to encourage "beneficial economic behaviour".

• Unions: SA heading for Nigeria
• New unit to probe govt corruption
• Alarm over missing tender records

DA: Possible pardons undeserved

Possible pardons for Schabir Shaik or former Eugene de Kock would be unwarranted, the DA says.

• Shaik's parole tightened
• Zuma considering Shaik's pardon
• Eugene de Kock seeks pardon

Zille: ANC getting desperate

DA leader Helen Zille has dismissed ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema's "racial rhetoric" as a desperate attempt to hang onto a support base in "terminal decline".

• Zille protest: Cops called in
• DA says it outshines ANC
• Storm over Malema food parcels

Zuma's hotline going cold

Less than a third of the complaints lodged to President Jacob Zuma's corruption hotline have been handled since the service's September launch.

• Zuma's hotline not hot - DA
• Zuma: Hotline a success
• Zuma hotline 'dysfunctional'

Zille: PE losing crime battle

While Port Elizabeth's ANC councillors squabble, the city's people are fighting a "losing battle" against criminals, Western Cape premier and DA leader Helen Zille says.

• Cele: 2010 safe in SA's hands
• Govt launches 16-Days campaign

ANC saddened by DA MP's death

The office of the ANC chief whip says it is saddened by the death of Democratic Alliance MP Cobus Schmidt who was killed in an accident in Welkom.

• DA MP killed in car crash

Speaker orders DA MPL to go

Democratic Alliance MPL Jack Bloom has been suspended for five days from the Gauteng Legislature by the Speaker for contempt.

Ministers are named, shamed

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has told Parliament that he "religiously" names and shames ministers who fail to respond to parliamentary questions.

• Parly debates boring - DA whip
• 'Ministers not open with Parly'

'Ministers not open with Parly'

The ANC is failing to conduct its business in an open and transparent manner by answering questions in Parliament, the DA's chief whip Ian Davidson says.

• DA: Parly broke the rules
• Parly debates boring - DA whip

Outcry over name changes

Opposition parties and organisations have slammed the government's decision to approve the changing of 42 place names.

• Nelspruit kept for 2010
• Town name changes 'dishonest'
• More name changes