This Gupta-pf family has been caught with their pants down and with finger in the cookie jar.

.... and the soapy continues :)

You were played, Zille. You walked straight into this knowing full well that the Guptas were in bed with JZ and that you were getting money from a dodgy source. Spin it until the cows come home but you are scoring all own goals here.

.... and the dance begins. That sweet little two step shuffle used by political sycophants when their masters are compromised. The variations are small and it is often difficult to see the differences between the dance moves. Different clans, can, however be distinguished by the trained observer

(all done in a David Attenborough voice)

When it comes to politicians, all of them, without exception, have dubious credibility. Even though I think that Zille is just another political skank, I'd believe her before believing anything that comes out of an ANC supporter's mouth.

I believe that our newspapers are unbiased, they tackle Zille with the same enthusiasm they tackle Zuma. Its just that the ANC corruption stories are more interesting than stories without corruption. Thats why the ANC gets more press.

But the New Age is a different animal, it appears that with the paper and the donation the parties tried to muzzle HZ from asking questions in parliament, and ,when she would not give in, they unleash the newspaer to attack her irrationally. I wonder how the New Age's editor sleeps at night, becoming the mouthpeace for the family......

The best way forward for the DA is for Zille to play open cards. Admit where the DA failed, but expose the Gupta's and their new-Mayibuye newspaper for what it is - a platform for pro-ANC propoganda and a conduit for channelling taxpayers money into ANC coffers!

Oh dear!

Never mind the soapy. What is happening with the train crash in Pretoria?

i don't know why is she making all the noise about this Mrs Zille you got the money, this show that all the political party are the same one way or the other...
This means that the Guptas family runs South Africa

Mrs Zille yought with your finger in the money pie. Now that the s..t is hitting the fan, you now come up with conspiracy theories. What do they say, where there's smoke, there's fire. Ms Zille, you lied, period. Finish and klaar!

Helen, if you are right then there is no need to get angry and defend your actions, and if you are wrong then you don't have any right to get angry.

Fact - 12,5 million South Africans are going to sleep hungry tonight ...I don't see the DA challenging the Gupta/Shaik/ZumaANC-corruption-mafiosi to follow Motsepe's example and return the 'stolen-from-the-poor-tenderpreneural' loot to honourable organisations in order to create jobs for the poor. Instead wasting time trying to cover-up their ill-gotten gains...

Guptas should be in jail (where Shabir Shaik and Jacob Zuma should be) as we all know their evil and corrupt ways and motives with their biased New Age rubbish newspaper eye-blinder!

...de la Rey, de la Rey?!

Is it possible for South Africans to ask the Guptas to leave our beautiful country? They can go whereever they come from. If Zuma and all politicians want they can follow as well. Just checking!

So what if HZ raised some cash from the Guptas - its called a party donation and its allowed (although in her party letter she says it was a business associate of the Guptas and not the family itself). If however the DA then started channelling government contracts to them then that would constitute all the who-hah that seems to have erupted over this. The question the DA rightfully asks is - when tickets to the Gupta New Age "breakfasts" cost 700 bucks and they are also receiving sponsorship from parastatals (i.e the government) to the tune of R28m+ , doesn't that smell a little fishy (or is that the bacon simmering away on what must amount to a few million bacon butties!!)

I don't understand what the fuss is about - not from Zille, the New Age or the anc stooges.
The DA received and accepted a donation towards their party in May 2009 - so what?
They wrote a nice 'thank you' letter - so what?
Did they give the New Age or the Guptas anything in return - like a tender, or a contract, or a cell phone, or a car? No - so what?
I don't think the Guptas were as infamous then as they are now, so the DA changed its mind and decided that the New Age and the Guptas were now persona non grata - so what?
We all know the Guptas are actually in bed with the president and the anc, so probably regret donating any money to the DA in any case.

This "breakfast" front must be exposed, and fully investigated by the Public Protector. It is little more than organised crime - stealing of taxpayers money by the ANC using a specially created benefactor's company (New Age) as the conduit.
The DA should hang their head in shame for their role in legitimising this farce!

Funding from parastatals "to the tune of R28m+".....enough to feed 8 million children? Maybe not, but if the Gupta clan followed in Mr Motsepe's footsteps and donated half of their wealth to philanthropic causes....maybe then it would be!
;)

Everyone is ignoring the fact that the DA accepted these relatively small donations in 2009 , when nothing was known about the Guptas.

Once it became evident that the Guptas and Zuma were filling each other's pockets Helen Zille REFUSED further donations.

I would say she did the honorable thing, and she certainly hid no facts about these donations from the public.

Sadly Zuma will not match her transparency regarding his economic relationship with the Guptas.

zille & the da cannot be trusted.
how about also probing the da's involvement with the wasteman group? the same wasteman group that was prosecuted for dumping medical waste across the country. Did the da not receive "incentives" from wasteman to protect that company's interest?
the double agenda party is still living in the dark age of apartheid. all will be spilt before the 2014 elections.

''....It has been revealed that Transnet and Eskom gave R27-million towards the costs of the breakfasts, which politicians, including Zuma, have been invited to attend and speak at...''

Priorities !!!!

KCUF the 12.5 million poor people who go to bed hungry every night !

With this amount of money they could have started thousands of soup kitchens all over the country to feed these hungry people but NO ! They are too selfish and their glutenous over-sized bellies is much more important !!!!

Every time I read these comments it makes me realise that anyone voting for the Absolute National Corruption party in the next elections have to be the most unintelligent, brain washed and idiotic citizens of this country. They must also be totally heartless and selfish when it comes to the desperately poor and indigent people who number in the hundreds of thousands.....!
The Corruption party does not care a hoot for these people, and here is the proof. The salary bill for the two hundred odd (mostly corrupt) ministers et al runs into the hundreds of millions each year. They do not EARN this, they TAKE it for the least amount of work. How is it possible that Zuma (and his wives) earns more than Obama, the most powerful leader in the world....Come on you moronic Corruption supporters, make me understand why he deserves it. And what's the president of our country doing being a member or director of an untold number of companies and CC's. Does he not receive enough to stave off hunger and misery? It’s absolutely disgusting that he can take in all this money from the tax payers while the poor and indigent (who by the way helped him get voted in) suffer interminably. In fact to put it more succinctly , any politician who has ever indulged in the splurging of taxpayers’ money on self-indulgent pursuits is a disgusting lump of putrid faeces who should be stripped of everything they own and forced to live in a squatter shack for the rest of their lives. Wow, I’ve just realised the whole cabinet of Corruption will have to be moved to what would become the most well known squatter camp in the world....!!!
So you see dumb asses, by voting for these a-holes you are allowing the rape to continue. Having said this I realise there are certain people who HAVE to vote for the Corrupt....those that are already entwined in the quagmire that has been formed over the last few years and who rely on the largesse bestowed on them for playing the money and power game of the untouchables! Are YOU one of those leeches sucking up to the top six????
Now, one of the (unintelligent) arguments over “ who else to vote for...” can be solved right here...If you want to be guaranteed things like service delivery, a decent life for all, top class education among many others, all you need do is threaten the Corrupt with a loss of power. That’s all, just let their majority in parliamentary drop below 60% and watch the change happen instantly!!! Make them realise that power can be removed at the cross of a pen. At the next election arrange with groups of people you associate with to vote for various smaller parties like the ACDP etc so that not one party becomes too dominant. The worst thing you can do is to NOT vote. It is construed as voter apathy and not anti ANCorruption.
Another thought to ponder....What could be so wrong with giving another party just 4 years to prove itself? The Corruption party has taken nearly 20 years to fix poverty with negative results (more poor now than before 1994)and not forgetting losing 30 billion bucks per year to fraud and corruption!!
In just 4 years you can just as easily vote them out if you are not satisfied...simple! Realistically the only party who could make the changes you want is the DA, considering they have a fairly good track record in the Cape....I do also believe that most politicians lie and steal but as long as we have press freedom and involved citizens we can keep it in check.
Go on, give them 4 years, (it’s not a lifetime) and let’s see what they can do!!!!

Most writers on this subject seem young enough not to have been around in the 70's. Really nothing new with forming a pro government news paper and letting the tax payer fund it unbeknownst to them. It took R 32m to create The Citizen. When it all came out in the wash the government found a whipping boy called Rhoodie. Instead of collapsing the newspaper they sold it to Perskor (read govt news papers unlimited) for R4m. Dont feel too bad if you who purchase today's state funded paper continue to do so into the future: Many a useful idiot did it in the 70's and 80's and then still believed what they paid it to tell them.