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DA Johannesburg mayoral candidate Helen Zille.

Real Politics: Johannesburg is now or never for the DA

Why Johannesburg is the DA’s biggest test before Gauteng 2029

South Africa’s recovery runs through Gauteng’s city halls

Restoring stability to Gauteng’s key metros is critical to driving South Africa's broader economic recovery

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EDITORIAL: Starlink’s Ukraine problem is South Africa’s dilemma

Promises come with a Musk-sized catch

The six metros sitting on an electoral knife edge

Who will win the battle?

Geordin Hill-Lewis.

Blue skies ahead for the DA in Cape Town?

The party is facing growing competition from the PA

JUSTICE MALALA: Who will lead a skeletal ANC?

The race to succeed Cyril Ramaphosa is wide open

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa and his deputy Paul Mashatile greet the ANC supporters at the party’s 112th birthday celebrations in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, in January 2024.

EDITORIAL: Will the ANC learn from the tender law defeat?

New version of Public Procurement Act will be harder to formulate

Cape Town transport plan pins hopes on rail revival

The Mother City bets on rail to beat its traffic troubles

NATASHA MARRIAN: A poll where everything is in play

No more safe seats in the 2026 local elections

Helen Zille

Real Politics: DA dare not forget Zille’s warning 

There are risks aplenty to a coalition with the ANC

Battle of the blueprints for South Africa’s broken municipalities

The ANC and DA offer starkly contrasting manifestos on how to fix South Africa’s municipalities

Kastelos in the sand: The DA’s Burke dilemma

Inside the party’s Burke bind

PA leader Gayton McKenzie

Gayton’s green machine takes aim at the DA

The PA’s Western Cape breakthrough is gathering pace

Real Politics: Burke tests DA’s clean-government claim

The DA cannot afford to blur the lines between it and the ANC

Real Politics: The DA’s municipal gamble: same plumbing, new plumber

As ideological lines between the DA and the ANC become blurred, the real contest will be over credibility: the ANC says it can renew itself and finally implement reforms promised…