DA Federal Council Chairperson Helen Zille

Defending Equitable Transformation: Why the DA’s Attack on Employment Equity Misses the Mark

When Helen Zille claims that South Africa’s Employment Equity (EE) Amendments amount to “unfair discrimination,”…

Helen Zille’s Unpatriotic Allegations: A Reckless Attempt to Undermine South Africa

DA Federal Council Chairperson Helen Zille, in her latest desperate bid to remain relevant in…

Mashaba: ‘GNU Is A Partnership Between Criminal ANC and Dishonest DA’

ACTIONSA President Herman Mashaba has denounced President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Government of National Unity (GNU), saying…

GNU’s Are Usually Born Out of Crises: But Newcastle In Natal Is Not Newcastle The UK

In public discourse, there is a tendency to incorrectly equate fundamentally dissimilar entities in nature and purpose. The governments of national unity (GNU) established in 1910, the 1990s and 2024 only share a name but are vastly different in context and outcome. Some commentators’ insistence on justifying this ‘sameness’ is intellectually dishonest and misleading.  It is akin to comparing Newcastle in Natal with Newcastle in the UK; they share a name but are distinctly separate places. In mainstream political literature,…

“Kill the Boer” Furore Exposes The Irrationality of White Fears As A Determining Factor In SA Politics

John Steenhuisen, the DA Leader, was three months old when the apartheid police massacred Hector Pieterson and other youths on June 16, 1976. His fellow DA leader, Federal Council Chairperson Helen Zille, was 25 and working as a journalist at the Rand Daily Mail. Their fellow traveller Kallie Kriel, the Afriforum CEO and face of white Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa, was six years and three months old.  The trio are the faces of white South Africans who accuse EFF…

“Kill the Boer”: Malema Attacks Zille, Elon Musk

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has dismissed concerns that he has created an international storm by chanting “Killer the Boer, Kill the Farmer” at the party’s 10th-anniversary celebration at FNB Stadium in Soweto over the weekend, saying the courts have exonerated him. The chant grabbed headlines globally, prompting Twitter owner Elon Musk to allege that the EFF was calling for a genocide of white people while President Cyril Ramaphosa kept quiet. Moreover, Malema attacked the Democratic Alliance federal…

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