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The Referendum Party is challenging norms by directing its criticism not at the ANC, but at the DA, the ruling party in the Western Cape.

Scores of trucks have been queuing for days along the N2, waiting to enter the Richards Bay port. Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said that the Cape Town Port was facing a similar situation and that Transnet’s dysfunction was very concerning.

News update: Parliament confirms nine officials have been suspended following the fire at the National Assembly last year.

Cape Town faces a race against time to fix its port infrastructure before an expanded export bonanza due to a bumper fruit crop.

Preliminary figures indicate that by late Saturday over 60,000 people had engaged with the Electoral Commission in the Western Cape, either at one of its stations or online.

DA chief whip Siviwe Gwarube was out with the party’s Western Cape Premier, Alan Winde, in Cape Town on Saturday to drum up support for the party and to encourage young people to register to vote.

Fresh from being elected to lead the biggest political party in the Western Cape, Tertuis Simmers has set himself a target no DA leader has achieved.

Martin van Staden says the DA and others’ argument that Parliament must first fix the old Act is without foundation

Pressure mounting for privatisation of Cape Town port

While it is clear that privatisation is the only solution to the challenges in the Cape Town port, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing has welcomed steps taken by the Western Cape government to mitigate risks for the current fruit harvesting season.