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The DA Provincial leader Francois Rodgers speaks outside the Pietermaritzburg High Court on July 24, 2025.
Outgoing KwaZulu-Natal Democratic Alliance (DA) leader, Francois Rodgers, says he has decided not to seek re-election in the upcoming local government elections in November, to allow young minds to take over. He was speaking ahead of the party’s provincial congress, in Durban, where delegates will elect the party’s new provincial leadership.
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“What we now have is a municipality, where we govern outright. Umngeni is where we’ve had success, people can feel that we have made a difference. We are now in the government of provincial unity where the two MECs that we have are making a difference. So now we have a party that can actually talk from experience. Now you got eThekwini, uMsunduzi, and many others in the province where we will focus our energy because we believe that we’re the only political organisation that has a positive track record in governance.”
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