Dan Plato News Today

The DA is at risk of losing its majority in Western Cape as support for new parties is expected to surge in the province and others look to win over voters on the issue of Palestine. The DA, however, remains confident.

The People’s Movement for Change launched four months ago, with Fransman saying the intention was to focus on issues affecting the poor and middle class.

Marius Fransman shifts allegiance from ANC to PMC, prioritising future-oriented politics and coalition building.

The Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa will not contest the general elections next month after infighting, court battles and suspensions.

Independent candidates demand equal treatment from IEC, push for inclusion of photos alongside party leaders.

The Western Cape is known as South Africa’s gangsterism capital and some residents fear that shifts in political alignments could stoke violence.

You told us that the electricity is sorted and the next day we had #Stage6 load shedding, not load shedding, blackouts.

Plato has joined the Peoples Movement for Change led by former provincial African National Congress (ANC) chairperson, Marius Fransman.

The party is being led by former Provincial African National Congress (ANC) chairperson, Marius Fransman.

Relations between the then-ANC’s Marius Fransman and the then-DA’s Dan Plato were once frosty. But that’s now ancient political history.