Democratic Alliance

DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis has urged South Africans to reject violence and vigilantism ahead of planned anti-migrant protests, calling for immigration laws to be enforced by the state.

South Africa's governing African National Congress has taken back control of the main city, Johannesburg, after its candidate was elected mayor by a comfortable margin.

The resignation of Mmusi Maimane as a member of South Africa's main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) shows that the party is in deep crisis.

By early afternoon on Friday the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) had emerged as the official opposition to the African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal after being locked in a neck-to-neck battle earlier with the Democratic Alliance (DA).

DA spokesperson Solly Malatsi said they are looking forward to outcomes of a police investigation into corruption involving De Lille.