The dispute surrounding former DA leader John Steenhuisen's exit from the Government of National Unity (GNU) Cabinet has exposed tensions that the Alliance has spent years insisting did not exist (AC Vol 65 No 13 The centre is holding – for now)...

Having been the most vocal critic of Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen who in February announced his plans to vacate the leadership Helen Zille looks set to entrench her status as the grande dame of the DA by ensuring her protégé Geordin Hill-Lewis will succeed him (Dispatches 9/2/26 After Steenhuisen quits as Democratic Alliance leader three contenders have emerged in the race to succeed him)...

Yet DA leader John Steenhuisen has refused to leave the GNU – partly under pressure from party financiers who fear that collapsing the coalition would open the door to an ANC faction allying with the EFF and the MK party...

DA leader John Steenhuisen has been leading efforts to pressure Ramaphosa to dismiss three ANC cabinet ministers embroiled in corruption scandals – along with a deputy minister linked to the era of President Zuma...

A week earlier John Steenhuisen leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the second biggest party in the Government of National Unity (GNU) pulled out of the dialogue branding it a crass misallocation of resources...

Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen also leader of the Democratic Alliance in the Government of National Unity is on the delegation...