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DA Federal chairperson Solly Msimanga addresses KZN provincial congress, 9 May 2026.
Democratic Alliance (DA) Federal Chairperson, Solly Msimanga, says his party’s participation in the Government of National Unity (GNU) does not mean it will support corruption.
He addressed more than 600 delegates at Durban’s Olive Convention Centre at the DA’s KwaZulu-Natal congress, where the new provincial leadership will be elected.
Msimanga says the party remains committed to accountability.
“This mission is too important for us to fail. You see, somebody said, it is important for the existence of the Democratic Alliance in South Africa. Because if the Democratic Alliance was not here in South Africa, then it is guaranteed that the deterioration would not have been frustrated. But we have been able to hold, fill, and keep people accountable and keep South Africa from falling over the cliff.”
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Meanwhile, Federal Leader Geordin Hill-Lewis says the upcoming local government elections in November are critically important for the future of communities in KwaZulu-Natal.
He says the elections are not about who will become councillors or who will hold mayoral positions, but about rebuilding struggling communities and helping to fix problems facing the province.
Hill-Lewis urged DA supporters to remain focused on the party’s goal of rebuilding the province.
The party is currently holding its provincial congress at the Olive Convention Centre in Durban.
“South Africans are going to vote in the local government elections. That election is not just about who gets to become a councillor, who gets to sit in the mayor’s office, who gets to run that council. It will decide whether we can take the broken towns, the broken villages, this broken city, and whether we can fix them in this province. That is the day that we will decide that.”
“It will decide whether residents get more excuses, whether they get more politicians just working for themselves instead of for the people, or whether they get something truly and wonderfully different: working streetlights, clean water, reliable rubbish collection, safer communities, better roads, municipalities that answer and pick up the phone when people call, mayors who actually care about the towns and municipalities they lead, public reps, councillors who govern for the people and not for themselves. That is the choice before us on the 4th of November in KZN,” says Hill-Lewis.
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