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Imagine A Life Without The ANC – Mmusi Maimane Predicts When The DA Will Be In Power
15 Jun 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
According to Mmusi Maimane, the man with the most mispronounced surname in all of South Africa, the ANC’s days are numbered. He says the DA are coming in hot.
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Opposition Parties React Angrily To Zuma’s Parliamentary Gigglefest
28 May 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
The South African political landscape has really descended into a free-for-all, although the latest attacks on Jacob Zuma are taking things to the next level.
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Mmusi Maimane Gets Trolled Hard On Twitter
13 May 2015 by Kiernan / 1 Comment
What happens when a politician opens the Twitter floor for an hour and fields questions on his personal account? Come now, you know how this plays out.
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Here’s Helen Zille Announcing Mmusi Maimane As The New DA Leader [Video]
11 May 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday’s announcement of Mmusi Maimane as the new leader of the DA may not have been a surprise, but that didn’t stop people celebrating wildly when the news was made official.
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Maimane Is Cool With The Death Penalty
06 May 2015 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
There were a few lessons to be learnt from Monday’s televised DA debate, and Mmusi Maimane raised a few issues that set tongues wagging.
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This’ll Be Interesting – DA’s Leadership Are Having A TV Debate On Monday
30 Apr 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
It takes a brave man to battle Mmusi Maimane live on TV, but it seems Wilmot James is up to the task. This should be somewhat interesting.
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This Is How Maimane Will Get Rid Of Zuma
28 Apr 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
We know that Mmusi isn’t afraid to stand up to Jacob Zuma, given his eloquent attack in the aftermath of the State of the Nation fiasco, but he may yet have a few more tricks up his sleeve.
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Xenophobia’s Not Just About Jobs, It’s About Stealing Women Too!
23 Apr 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
It seems there are multiple reasons as to why there is so much anger towards our fellow Africans in this country, but here’s one I haven’t heard before.
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Helen Zille Quietly Directing Traffic Outside Her Home [Video]
26 Jan 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Watch Helen Zille take matters into her own hands and direct traffic outside her Cape Town residence. Thumbs up.
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MASSIVE: Judge Rules In Favour Of DA’s ‘Zuma Stole’ SMS
20 Jan 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
In what many will claim is a victory for free speech a massive Constitutional Court ruling has gone the way of the DA. Next up…pay back the money!
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The ANC Is Not Happy With This DA Tweet, Showing Dogs Urinating On Zuma’s Face [Image]
03 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
When DA MP, Michael Waters tweeted a picture captioned “Voting Day. Make your mark”, showing a line of dogs urinating on an election poster of Jacob Zuma, he may not have considered the full scope of his actions. Or the full scope of Twitter.
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The Daily Maverick Gets Stuck Into The DA / Agang Merger Conversation
29 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Chess pieces are on the move on the political front as it was announced on Tuesday that Agang leader Mamphela Ramphele will be joining forces with the DA. The Daily Maverick gets into the finer details of this political play before the forthcoming general elections.
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Agang Leaders Are Meeting This Morning To Expel Ramphele From The Party [AUDIO]
29 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Mamphela Ramphele held a joint press conference with the Democratic Alliance yesterday, in which it was announced that the DA and Agang would form a “joint technical committee”, that would see Ramphele stand as the DA presidential candidate in the 2014 general elections.
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MASSIVE: The DA’s 2014 Presidential Candidate Is Mamphela Ramphele
28 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Democratic Alliance called a press conference on Tuesday morning to announce a development of “national importance.” That development sees Zille, Ramphele and De Lille working together under one roof, as the Democratic Alliance forms a “joint technical committee” with Ramphele’s Agang party, which was formed in 2013. Ramphele will stand as the DA presidential […]
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Anti-E-Toll Aerial Banner Flown Around Jo’Burg [Pic]
03 Dec 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
It looks like the DA have taken to the skies, using Mavericks’ style aerial banner placement in Johannesburg. Here’s a pic of their airborne signage cruising around Johannesburg. Hey did you catch THIS GUY‘s numberplate we posted earlier? [source: @maimaneAM]
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The DA Finally Agrees On What It Thinks Of Race [AUDIO]
29 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Democratic Alliance held its first policy conference over the weekend, and decided that race was a “legitimate proxy” for redressing apartheid legacy. We speak to the opposition party’s deputy federal chairperson Makashule Gana about its views on race in South Africa and redress policies.
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ANC Says DA Parliamentary Leader Was Dressed Inappropriately – What Do You Think? [VIDEO]
14 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
According to a statement from ANC’s chief whip, the Democratic Alliance Parliamentary leader, Lindiwe Mazibuko was inappropriately dressed for Parliament yesterday afternoon. Damn girl!
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Democratic Alliance Donates R1 Million (Really) To Anti E-toll Lobby
07 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday, the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) stood up, crossed their hearts, and said that they needed one million bucks to cover their legals fees in their continued fight against E-tolls in Gauteng. It took less than 24 hours for the DA to send that cash their way.
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Watch The Full “Know Your DA” Film That The ANC Are Freaking Out About [VIDEO]
15 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The ‘Know Your DA’ film campaign was launched on 13 May 2013, and will see 30 000 copies of the video being distributed across the country. It’s also going to be available in nine languages. Monthly house meetings will be held where the film will be aired and the DA’s story told.
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Tuesday Morning Spice
14 May 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Nkandla report will be kept secret. Elephant tramples suspected poacher to death. Google drive triples space to 15gb. Jack Bauer is back. Samsung announces 5G breakthrough. Americans hate hipsters. Kate Upton cracks US Vogue cover.
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TOP 5 April Fool’s Stories In The Press [VIDEOS]
02 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Yesterday, we were predictably treated to an array of April Fools Day jokes across the world. Most of them sucked, so we curated five that didn’t, for you. It looks like the tech and media sectors are the front-runners when it comes to humour. Better luck next year, insurance industry. Prank One: First up and […]
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Security At Zuma’s Homestead Cost 260% More Than A Brand New Jail
15 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Democratic Alliance MP, Anchen Dreyer revealed before the House of Parliament on Thursday that R117 million had been spent on security at Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead. Consider that R45 million was spent to construct a top of the range jail in Kimberly last year. That’s 260% more spent on one man, than a criminal incarceration […]
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Motlanthe Defends Funding Christmas Holiday With Public Money
07 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Apparently Deputy President, Kgalema Motlanthe thinks it’s okay to use public money to foot the bill for transport and security costs of his Seychelles Christmas vacation. And according to Motlanthe, the use of public money was in line with government policy. Democratic Alliance MP, David Maynier posed a question to Motlanthe in the National Assembly, […]
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Timeline Of A Twar – DA’s Helen Zille Fights Back On Twitter
04 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The boxing gloves were off yesterday as Zille took to the twittersphere to defend the donations received by the DA from the Gupta’s family and a senior executive, as well as the credibility of the DA. Zille maintains the receipt of a donation and not a bribe. This all began in 2009 when the DA received […]
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DA Issues Challenge In Limpopo Textbook Saga
01 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The textbook saga in Limpopo has been dragging on for ages, and local politicians have seen this as a fantastic opportunity to make themselves look good. Well, the Democratic Alliance, at least. Some Limpopo schools are still without textbooks, in spite of government intervention and a court order from the North Gauteng High Court.
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BREAKING: DA’s New Open Letter To Both Racist Twitter Models
07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 16 Comments
The DA’s National Spokesperson, Mmusi Maimane has penned an open letter, to Jessica Leandra Dos Santos, and Tshidi Tamane, who earned infamy last week by stinking up twitter with their respective outbursts of racist vitriol. Maimane offers to host both of the racist models at his home, for dinner. Read the whole thing, after the […]
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Sexy DA Youth Poster Sparks Social Media Debate [PIC]
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A rather sexy poster, featuring a naked interracial couple sparked debates across social platforms yesterday. Created by the DA Student Organisation, it shows a white man embracing a black woman with the tagline: “DASO: In our future you wouldn’t look twice.”
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DA Lashes Out Against ‘Draconian’ New Weather Bill
12 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
There’s a storm rapidly brewing over a very contentious amendment to the South African Weather Service Bill. The Democratic Alliance has slammed the “undesirable” and “draconian” sections on the grounds that they are a threat to the safety of all South Africans and would create an unfair monopoly over weather forecasting.
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Lindiwe Mazibuko Elected DA Parliamentary Leader
27 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Lindiwe Mazibuko has trumped Atholl “I speak a little isiXhosa” Trollip* in a vote to select the Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader. *[Thanks, Mvelase]
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DA Member of Parliament Too Sexy To Rape Anyone
01 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On Friday Masizole Mnqasela, a DA Member of Parliament, was found not guilty of raping a schoolgirl last year. At the time he invited her to his house “for leftover braai meat” but claims nothing else happened. He branded the charge against him a political smear campaign, adding that he is too sexy to have to rape anyone.
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