A controversial new amendment to South Africa’s current mining laws is being processed, taking another step towards nationalising the country’s natural resources and scaring investors away

The ANC accuses the DA of playing dirty after another billboard campaign appears across Gauteng blaming the ruling party for the current electricity shortage in South Africa

As the use social media is turning into a critical tool of political campaigning across South Africa, some members within the ranks of the Democratic Alliance don’t seem to take Helen Zille’s direct remarks on Twitter too lightly

The short version of events: the ANC wins and the DA loses in a number of by-elections held across South Africa earlier in the week. But the long version of the story rather exposes how neither party can actually claim a major victory or celebrate any success, as the campaign season shifts into full gear

Thousands of ANC and DA supporters barely managed to shy away from violent clashes, as the election year is pushed into gear

As voter registration comes to a close, President Zuma announces 7 May as the date for the general elections – leaving relatively little time for parties to wrap up their election campaigns

Controversial ANC loyalist and former Ekurhuleni Police chief Robert McBride inches his way forward to being appointed the head of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate, as critics fear the divisive nomination will plummet the South African Police Service further into corruption.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) denies it came under pressure from its donors to push for the failed merger with Agang SA – but is the same true for Agang?

Mood between opposition parties Agang SA and the Democratic Alliance sours as their prospective political merger is rejected by Agang leader Dr Mamphela Ramphele, only a week after being named as the DA’s presidential candidate

The former South African President might come back to the National Assembly as an MP – if the ANC let him

In a stunning message this morning the Democratic Alliance announced that its number one seat for the 2014 general elections is reserved for Agang SA leader Dr. Mamphela Ramphele

South Africans have flocked to foreign missions around the globe to register as voters over the last two weeks. But others have complained that locations for registration were too limited – leaving South Africa’s huge community in Perth, for instance, having to drive two 80-hour round trips to register and vote.

The Democratic Alliance leader, Helen Zille, has released a video specifically addressed to the South African diaspora, urging them to register and vote in the upcoming national elections by 7 February

Opposition parties have expressed doubt that the South African government will be able to fulfil its promises to create six million jobs, fight corruption and improve education, as detailed in the ANC’s election manifesto unveiled by Jacob Zuma on the weekend

The Security Cluster of Ministers have closed ranks around Number One as the State releases its own Nkandla report ahead of the Public Protector’s more hotly-awaited one. As many expected, the State has defended everything down to the large swimming pool as esssential to the First Family’s protection, although some overpayment for individual items has been admitted to

South Africans are united in their approval for the cutting of ministerial perks, government luxury travel and accommodation, and State credit cards for higher-ups. But this budget’s appetite to tackle the major constraints on growth have proven to be a matter of tense debate

As the 2014 elections draw nearer, the National Assembly has approved the Electoral Amendment Bill, despite protests from the DA.

ANC supporters assaulted a Democratic Alliance member who had supported a DA candidate to replace the ANC mayor in the hotly-contested Tlokwe (former Potchefstroom) municipality on Wednesday.

The Democratic Alliance held an evening at the Liberal Club in London to launch Blue the Network and engage with young South Africans.

Proposed amendments to Electoral Act will see 2009 Constitutional finding applied in full, allowing South Africans to vote wherever they are on Election Day in 2014.

African leaders’ “club of silence” – the refusal to criticise each other or intervene in times of crisis – has kept Robert Mugabe in power up to now. But how has South African president Jacob Zuma gained from support of Mugabe in the face of consistent criticism?

Democratic Alliance condemns President Jacob Zuma for congratulating Robert Mugabe on winning last week’s Zimbabwean presidential election, while international pressure mounts to re-examine results of the ‘farcical’ poll

Madiba’s relative believes that the current government has failed South Africans and wants to join the opposition party.

Mandela’s cousin has declared his support for the DA because the ANC has “lost its way”, in spite of ruling party radicals’ attempts to secure votes ahead of the 2014 elections – the latest of which has allegedly seen a DA youth leader’s shack set alight for being a “dog of Helen Zille”.

The DNA of the South African voter is not complicated. It is summed up in the Bill of Rights; it is protected by the Constitution. It has an independent judiciary. It is mirrored through a free press. All these life forces are being threatened by politics, argues Pieter-Dirk Uys.