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South Africa: DA Might Be Punished in the 2021 Polls for Choosing a Steenhuisen-Zille Ticket
Daily Maverick, 2 November 2020
The election of John Steenhuisen as DA leader and the re-election of Helen Zille as chair of its Federal Council are unlikely to help SA's main opposition party improve its… Read more »
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South Africa: Hope Is On the Horizon for South Africa
Daily Maverick, 2 November 2020
A revitalised Democratic Alliance is committed to giving South Africans a reason to again lift their eyes up from the ground. The people of South Africa are no longer alone. Read more »
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South Africa: DA Federal Congress Shows Two Faces of One Party
Daily Maverick, 2 November 2020
The majority of DA delegates have pinned their hopes on new leader John Steenhuisen when it comes to the future of the party. But what the DA Federal Congress made clear is that… Read more »
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South Africa: John Steenhuisen Elected As DA Leader, Helen Zille Re-Elected As Federal Council Chair
Daily Maverick, 1 November 2020
The DA's 2020 federal congress has delivered the expected outcome - and voted in John Steenhuisen as party leader for the next three years. Read more »
New South African Opposition Chief a Poor Choice for Local Polls?
The election of John Steenhuisen as Democratic Alliance (DA) leader and the re-election of Helen Zille as chair of its Federal Council are unlikely to help the nation's main opposition party improve its electoral success, writes Stephen Grootes for Daily Maverick. In his victory address, Steenhuisen said that South Africans had been robbed of their destiny by a state which is corrupt but "hell-bent on telling you what to do". Steenhuisen painted a dark picture of a future in which the South African government is "coming for your home, coming for your health, and coming for your savings".
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Have South African politics entered a space in which only the tough, rough and shamelessly nasty survive? Daily Maverick's Stephen Grootes thinks so. This comes after Read more »
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South African opposition party, the Democratic Alliance has announced that John Steenhuisen has been elected unopposed as the DA's new parliamentary leader, after the party's ... Read more »
