Mmusi Maimane

The ANC is doing minimal polling compared to Mmusi Maimane's Democratic Alliance which has ample funds but also suffers from personality and policy divisions...

Estimates of the ANC vote range from 48% to more than 60% while there is a general consensus that the right-of-centre Democratic Alliance of Mmusi Maimane is likely to drop below 20% down from 22% in 2014 and the radical Economic Freedom Fighters of Julius Malema are likely to break through the 10% threshold up from 6% (AC Vol 60 No 1 The fight for the ANC's soul)...

He initially told parliament in reply to a question by Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane that the money had been paid into his son's account but later said that it had been paid by a logistics company Bosasa now known as African Global Operations...

Another complication in the arms deal with Saudi Arabia is that the populist Economic Freedom Fighters of Julius Malema and the right-of-centre Democratic Alliance of Mmusi Maimane will accuse the Ramaphosa government of selling the family silver getting little for South Africa in return...

Judging by the list of people the Democratic Alliance Mmusi Maimane has requested be called to testify the critics' claim that South Africa did not have a Zuma problem holds true...

Ramaphosa's advisory panel on land reform Vuyokazi 'Vuyo' Mahlati member of the National Planning Commission and president of the African Farmers' Association of South Africa (chair of panel) Ruth Hall researcher and professor at the University of the Western Cape's Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies Professor Abdus Salam Mohammad Karaan professor in agricultural economics at Stellenbosch University Daniel Kriek Free State commercial livestock farmer and president of AgriSA an umbrella group of farming associations Bulelwa Mabasa attorney with expertise in land restitution and reform Thato Moagi young emerging farmer (aged 27) and entrepreneur Thandi Ngcobo chief executive and founder of the Dr J L Dube Institute for Humanitarian and Development Praxis at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Tembeka Ngcukaitobi advocate public speaker and author whose work for the Legal Resources Centre and Johannesburg Bar spans public law labour law and competition Nick Serfontein chairman of Sernick Group which is cooperating with Ramaphosa; 2016 Free State Farmer of the Year and Mentor of the Year Wandile Sihlobo agricultural economist head of research at the Agricultural Business Chamber independent advisor to Afgrain Food Groups Called to account Opposition leader Mmusi Maimane of the Democratic Alliance has requested confirmation from the Zondo Commission into state capture that the following former and serving state officials be called to testify: Lynne Brown former Energy Minister Jessie Duarte ANC Deputy Secretary-General Arthur Fraser former spy chief/Director-General of the State Security Agency now National Commissioner of Correctional Services Malusi Gigaba former Finance Minister now Minister of Home Affairs David 'DD' Mabuza current Deputy President of the ANC and South Africa David Mahlobo former State Security Minister Gwede Mantashe Chairman of the African National Congress Tom Moyane former head of the South African Revenue Service the national tax collection agency Cyril Ramaphosa current ANC President and President of South Africa David Douglas 'Des' van Rooyen former Minister of Local Government Jacob Zuma former ANC President and President of the Republic of South Africa Mosebenzi Zwane former Minister of Mineral Resources ...

The Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane facing challenges from within his party was able to muster support from only 20% of respondents in the recent opinion poll by Ipsos...

And on the right the Democratic Alliance under Mmusi Maimane will lead a well-financed campaign in step with commercial farming lobbies against the new land plan...

Hardly breaking the mood Mmusi Maimane leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance followed with a couple of minutes of congratulations spiced with a few mild barbs...

Vote fallOpposition politicians are already looking past the ANC's December conference to the 2019 elections when analysts say that the ANC is likely to see its vote share drop below 50% potentially forcing it into coalitions at provincial and municipal level with the Democratic Alliance of Mmusi Maimane or the leftist Economic Freedom Fighters of Julius Malema...

'It will be either Cyril Ramaphosa Julius Malema or Mmusi Maimane...

Last week DA leader Mmusi Maimane forced Western Cape Premier and former party leader Helen Zille to apologise for tweeting that not all aspects of the colonial legacy were bad after the EFF threatened to pull out of the municipal coalition if he didn't discipline her...