Yesterday I proposed in my budget vote speech that the Department of Sport and Recreation act to dissolve Boxing South Africa (BSA). The DA will now introduce a Private Member’s Bill to give legislative effect to this proposal.

The Democratic Alliance has assigned protfolios to each of our Members of Parliament. In keeping with the need to provide the most effective oversight role possible, we have decided to align our spokespersons’ portfolios with national government’s new departmental structure.

We have effectively appointed a Shadow Cabinet who together under the direction of the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament form an alternative cabinet to the government's, whose members shadow or mark each individual member of the government.

View the composition of the Shadow Cabinet here >>

It has been just over three years since the last South African Municipal Elections in March 2006.

Since then, DA-led municipalities have exhibited a strong track record in government; a government that delivers on its promises, creating opportunity, speeding up service delivery, and cracking down on crime and corruption.

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Based on carefully costed and mutually reinforcing policies that set out practical steps to attain our vision, this manifesto is our blueprint for a winning nation. It is the compass by which we must steer, to become one nation with one future.

This election is a contest between two political philosophies, each of which will take our country in a fundamentally different direction. These diametrically opposing options can be described, in summary, as the "open, opportunity driven society for all" versus the "closed, crony society for some".

The Democratic Alliance believes in the open, opportunity society for all. It is a belief that shapes everything we say and do.

- DA Leader Helen Zille