It’s Christmas! Well, not quite, but close enough. So The Wrap team is taking a break for a few weeks and we’ll be back in the new year. Before we go, we catch you up on the BIG news that former president Jacob Zuma may be heading back to jail, important Covid developments you need …
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Monday was undoubtedly an eventful day. But amid all the glitches, the rain and the protests, a lot happened with the Democratic Alliance that we thought deserved its own election wrap. 🔹What’s an election without some drama? Video footage shows a policeman forcefully pulling Zille out of a voting station in Bethelsdorp, Gqeberha after ANC …
Who would have thought the once indomitable ANC would be scrambling for coalition partners to stay in power in cities and municipalities across the country? As the results stream in from the local government elections one thing is clear: South Africa’s voting patterns have finally, fundamentally, shifted. Early indications are that the ruling party will …
This week SA’s senior men’s cricket team made headlines, not for their on-field abilities, but because they had to be forced by the board of governing body Cricket South Africa (CSA) to “take a knee” against racism. The gesture, first used by American athlete Colin Kaepernick as a silent protest against the murder by police …
Today you’ll be choosing your local government leaders! So, in our final pre-election explainer, we want to talk about coalitions. 🤝 The last local government elections in 2016 saw shock losses for the ANC in major cities, while opposition parties banded together to keep the ruling party out. The DA coalesced with smaller parties to …
The Democratic Alliance is like that drunk uncle that always says inappropriate things at family events and is too stubborn to stop. 😓 This time, the blue party put up posters in Phoenix, a predominantly Indian suburb in Kwa-Zulu Natal, which read: “The ANC called you racists” and “The DA calls you heroes” and it’s …
Are politicians frustrated spatial planners at heart? We’re tempted to think so following their recent election campaigning. The DA in Cape Town wants to turn the estate that houses parliamentarians into low-cost housing. It sends all the right signals: housing 400 MPs costs almost R70 million per year. But we can’t take the party seriously. …
This is the first election since the Political Funding Act of 2018 came into effect. We are pretty excited about this, because it will force parties to declare any funder amounts of more than R100 000, ushering in a new era of accountability. Or so we hoped. Last week Thursday the IEC released its first …
Can you imagine how awkward it must have been for the Democratic Alliance when it published a statement saying it had accepted the resignation of one its members, Phumzile van Damme, when, er, she hadn’t resigned from the party but had quit her role as an MP? Van Damme had to clarify this point on …
Our take: What can a state do with a R50 billion 49,157,323,233.68. Quite a tongue twister, right? That’s 50 billion – in this case, rands the Gupta family allegedly stole from South African taxpayers to carry out its elaborate and abhorrent state capture project. This, according to one estimation. The eye-watering figure was revealed at …