South Africa’s Democratic Alliance (DA)partyon Wednesday rejected the country’s contested budget as lawmakers gathered to vote on it in parliament. The budget has been the sternest test of the broad ...

Pledges to “our people” were a theme of Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation (Sona) speech in February ... rules made it easy for its leader, John Steenhuisen, to announce that “we simply ...

The DA welcomes today’s ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) that the jamming of telecommunications signals during the 2015 State of the Nation Address, as well as the cutting of the live ...

The 2024 State of the Nation Address (SONA) will be the last delivered by an African National Congress (ANC) President with its own majority in the National Assembly. As South Africa eagerly ...

The bulk of the President’s State of the Nation Address this evening could easily have been a DA speech, and he should be commended for at least saying some of the right things. However, he has made ...

Deputy Speaker Lechesa Tsenoli's remarks at this morning's pre-SONA briefing that the DA had not given him sufficient notice and is responsible for the costs incurred by not attending Parliament's pre ...

As the leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA), I am extremely proud to say that our policies were front and center in the President's State of the Nation Address. At national, provincial, and local ...

This is a strange SONA to debate, because large parts of the president’s speech are straight from the DA’s playbook. Let’s be clear: That’s a good thing. What we need, if we want to fight poverty, is ...