There are now four former ANC members heading opposition parties: Jardine (Change Starts Now); Mmusi Maimane (Build One South Africa); Bantu Holomisa (United Democratic Movement); and Mosiuoa Lekota (Congress of the People)...

The UDM's Bantu Holomisa said Steenhuisen shouldn't use 'other parties as pawns and cherry pick those with whom they wish to form an alliance'...

Parties such as Good led by Western Cape veteran Patricia de Lille Gayton McKenzie's Patriotic Alliance Bantu Holomisa's United Democratic Movement Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha and the African Christian Democratic Party all hope for big gains from narrowly targeted local campaigns...

• July 2018: United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa applies to court to have PIC CEO Dan Matjila suspended for suspected corruption...

'Dlamini-Zuma was always a decoy ' said Bantu Holomisa leader of the tiny United Democratic Movement and a shrewd observer of ANC politics...

Bantu Holomisa leader of the United Democratic Front said Nkandla was a serious indictment of the government and an ‘embarrassment of the highest order' (AC Vol 43 No 13 End of an Alliance & What's left of the opposition)...

Bantu Holomisa who leads the small opposition United Democratic Movement says his party received 100 000 rand (US$14 500) from the Guptas last year...

Yet apart from Bantu Holomisa and Mangosuthu Buthelezi most of these black Bantustan leaders have faded leaving their supporters without political homes...

The United Democratic Movement of former ANC and Homeland leader Bantu Holomisa – which has pockets of support here – will be sidelined in the battle between COPE and the ANC...