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Pieter Groenewald, Freedom Front leader and minister of correctional services minister, speaks during the budget on February 20 2025. (Photo: Freedom Front Plus website)
ANC

Real politics: ‘nangu umlungu’ is a warning to the ANC

A social-media meme celebrating a white minister’s competence is unsettling the ANC. Can performance can outweigh race at the ballot box?

  • Zukile Majova
6 min read
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE
Audio

PODCAST: Can the DA be South Africa’s largest party?

New leader Geordin Hill-Lewis wants the DA to become the country’s largest party. Is that possible? Really?

  • Mark Barnes
  • Tim Cohen
1 min read
Geordin Hill-Lewis elected as the new leader of the Democratic Alliance during The Congress at the Gallagher Convention Centre on 12 April, 2026. Photo by Gallo Images/Fani Mahuntsi)
ASHOR SARUPEN

The DA just got much younger. The ANC should worry

The DA’s new leadership is younger, more diverse and openly ambitious. The party could be one to watch as it pivots towards pragmatism

  • Vernon Wessels
7 min read
Data currents
BY ELECTIONS

Data currents: charting the PA’s popularity in the Western Cape

The PA is on the ascendent in the Western Cape, looking to thwart the DA and ANC’s ambitions in next year’s local government elections

  • The South Africa Brief
1 min read