Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Every person, including Jacob Zuma, must be equal before the law, opposition leader Helen Zille said on Saturday, also calling for a crime charter.
IOL (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Every person, including Jacob Zuma, must be equal before the law and every person must have the right to a fair trial, opposition leader Helen Zille said on Saturday at a crime imbizo in Durban."ANC leaders have now vowed that Zuma will walk free, no matter what evidence there is against him," the Democratic Alliance head said in remarks prepared for delivery."They are effectively saying...
IOL (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
By Helena Innes-WatsonDays after "jailbird" Gerhard Pieterse moved his cell to the new location of Canal Walk, the fundraising effort for Austism Western Cape has received a R50 000 donation from the Ralph Stephen Naussbaum Foundation. The organisation is hoping to raise R1-million through Pieterse's incarceration in a mall jail cell, where he has already spent nearly two months. The 37-year-old...
Herald (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
... should Zuma be found guilty of corruption makes his candidacy as president untenable,” DA leader Helen Zille said.“Zuma must now put the public interest first and withdraw from the presidential race until his trial is resolved.”He faces charges of racketeering, four charges of corruption, a charge of money laundering and 12 of fraud.His legal team has brought an application in the...
IOL (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
... fight the bill all the way to the constitutional court if it is passed. Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille questioned the motives behind the bill, suggesting the ANC would use it as a "wedge issue" in the run-up to next year's election, hoping her party would "kick up a fuss" so that the ruling party could "play the race card". Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder suggested...
IOL (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
A crime charter needs to be established to enforce the rights of victims, DA leader Helen Zille said at a crime imbizo in Durban.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
... SA's opposition parties have been historically weakest.I was amazed to see posters of DA leader Helen Zille appearing on lamp posts in Johannesburg recently exhorting the public to "win the war against drugs". It's hard to think of a more bizarre message in the midst of an economic downturn. The message might be appropriate on the Cape Flats, but in suburban Johannesburg?Yet the DA...
IOL (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
African National Congress President Jacob Zuma must withdraw from the presidential race until after his corruption trial, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Monday."The Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans' Association's (MKMVA) threat of revolutionary violence should Jacob Zuma be found guilty of corruption makes his candidacy as president of South Africa untenable," DA leader Helen Zille...
Herald (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
... to make representations before it decided to prosecute him in 2005 and 2007.Opposition leader Helen Zille said at the weekend that every person, including Zuma, must be equal before the law and every person must have the right to a fair trial.Addressing a crime imbizo in Durban on Saturday, the DA leader said: “ANC leaders have now vowed that Zuma will walk free, no matter what evidence...
Herald (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
... the procurement process should approach the law enforcement agencies.”Earlier yesterday, DA leader Helen Zille urged Mbeki to appoint a commission of inquiry into the renewed allegations and explain his alleged involvement.“If the president facilitated a R2-million bribe for Jacob Zuma and R28-million for the ANC, it would show that the ANC is rotten to the core,” she said.It would...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
... going to change policy or implementation plan," said Brown.Commenting on the news, Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille said on Friday: "It's unprecedented to change a cabinet nine months before an election. Only one person, Cobus Dowry, kept his position and that creates massive instability."Zille said this was because it took, in her view, at least a year for an MEC to take sufficient...
IOL (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
... going to change policy or implementation plan," said Brown.Commenting on the news, Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille said on Friday: "It's unprecedented to change a cabinet nine months before an election. Only one person, Cobus Dowry, kept his position and that creates massive instability."Zille said this was because it took, in her view, at least a year for an MEC to take sufficient...
IOL (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
... Manuel, former president Nelson Mandela, sports and recreation MEC Amichand Rajbansi and DA leader Helen Zille.Buthelezi used the opportunity to celebrate the life of his "dazzling" daughter.He said his daughter's infectious smile and loyalty were some of the things he remembered.Buthelezi said Lethuxolo was tireless in her duties to him and questioned how he would survive without...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
... night, the area is pitch dark. The street lights do not work.In a radio programme, Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille said nearly 4 000 electricity connections would be installed across Khayelitsha before the end of this financial year.Luvuyo Ndlovu, who lives near the field in Section 59, said friends had died because of the footpath. "We are not safe here, please help us," he said.In an...
