Vol 67 No 5 |
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Having been the most vocal critic of Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen who in February announced his plans to vacate the leadership Helen Zille looks set to entrench her status as the grande dame of the DA by ensuring her protégé Geordin Hill-Lewis will succeed him (Dispatches 9/2/26 After Steenhuisen quits as Democratic Alliance leader three contenders have emerged in the race to succeed him)...
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Vol 67 No 4 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Outgoing Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen hopes that by agreeing to stand down in April he will keep his cabinet seat as Agriculture Minister in the Government of National Unity coalition...
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Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen the leader of the Democratic Alliance Ramaphosa's main coalition partner has indicated that the government may have to give ground on some of its affirmative action laws such as black economic empowerment employment equity and land expropriation laws to curry favour with Trump (AC Vol 66 No 11 Why Musk and Rupert hold key to the Ramaphosa-Trump summit)...
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Yet DA leader John Steenhuisen has refused to leave the GNU – partly under pressure from party financiers who fear that collapsing the coalition would open the door to an ANC faction allying with the EFF and the MK party...
Vol 66 No 15 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
DA leader John Steenhuisen has been leading efforts to pressure Ramaphosa to dismiss three ANC cabinet ministers embroiled in corruption scandals – along with a deputy minister linked to the era of President Zuma...
Vol 66 No 15 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
A week earlier John Steenhuisen leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the second biggest party in the Government of National Unity (GNU) pulled out of the dialogue branding it a crass misallocation of resources...
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Vol 66 No 14 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Whitfield has described his dismissal as 'an unnecessary provocation ' and party leader John Steenhuisen convened a meeting of the party's Federal Executive on 26 June...
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Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen also leader of the Democratic Alliance in the Government of National Unity is on the delegation...
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Vol 66 No 9 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Supporters of ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile have been emboldened in their opposition to the DA's inclusion in the coalition; and critics such as Helen Zille of John Steenhuisen's leadership of the DA lamented that he didn't capitalise more on the ANC's discomfiture over the budget...
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Vol 66 No 8 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
DA parliamentary leader John Steenhuisen and Federal Council Chair Helen Zille differ on GNU tactics with Zille advocating a more uncompromising approach taking matters to the brink...
DA leader John Steenhuisen told a local radio show ‘We want to have some say in economic direction but there are factional battles at play in the ANC...