Here are the DA’s new leaders, elected by more than 2,000 delegates at the party’s 2026 congress. They are mostly young, but the question remains: can they grow the party into the country’s largest by 2029?

The SAWS has issued warnings of severe thunderstorms in parts of the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, the North West and Gauteng with heavy downpours, hail and damaging winds which may lead to flooding and cause damage to property, infrastructure and livestock.

Newly elected DA federal chairperson, Solly Msimanga, wants the party to grow outside urban areas to rural areas if it stands any chance of becoming the biggest party in 2029.

The thing about reading is that it stimulates your own individual thoughts. It doesn’t impose other people’s prepackaged opinions on any particular topic on you.

Three armed men robbed seven customers of their laptops in a coordinated heist at a Gqeberha café, with security experts describing the operation as highly organised and deliberate.

The idea of journalistic neutrality is a fiction that can obscure power, mute injustice and blur the realities of conflict. In moments when truth itself carries risk, silence and false balance come at a cost that journalism can no longer afford to ignore.

South Africa’s first consignment of the twice-a-year anti-HIV injection lenacapavir arrived last week at OR Tambo Airport via two shipments from Dublin – six weeks later than expected. The delay meant the health department couldn’t start its planned roll-out on 1 April and had to postpone it to mid- to late May.