By Johnathan Paoli
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen has called for accountability, renewal, and grassroots mobilisation from members in the Northern Cape province, ahead of the local government elections next year.
Delivering an address to the party’s Northern Cape Congress on Saturday, Steenhuisen warned that the Northern Cape’s growing crises in safety, infrastructure, governance, and service delivery required urgent, people-centred solutions — and a government with the will and competence to act.
“Local government elections take centre stage in 2026, and it’s going to be keenly contested. But I firmly believe that elections are won one voter at a time. If we make voters feel seen, heard, understood, and communicated with, we can continue to change the course of our country for the better. Together, we can fix this,” he said.
Steenhuisen opened his speech by paying tribute to outgoing provincial leader Harold McGluwa, describing his decade-long leadership as
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