Overview
- Sithembiso Ngema won the Democratic Alliance leadership in KwaZulu-Natal at the party’s Durban congress, defeating Mzamo Billy.
- The new team includes Martin Meyer as deputy leader and Dean Macpherson re-elected as provincial chair with three deputies.
- Ngema said the DA will field candidates in all 54 municipalities and take its campaign deep into townships and rural areas.
- The party is targeting control in the eThekwini metro as ANC support softens there and expects to be a kingmaker in many councils.
- National leaders Geordin Hill-Lewis and Solly Msimanga underscored service delivery and anti-corruption, pointing to DA governance in uMngeni and its KZN cabinet posts as proof of approach.