Coalitions 'new' catch-phrase in '26

If one just looks at how the political landscape shifted since the nation cast their vote at the end of May, some political parties would be forgiven for seeing coalition as a curse word, while the prospects of forming new relationships certainly threw a lifeline to other parties that had probably found themselves out in the cold.

And while many of the so-called bigger parties will be quick to insist the national landscape is about a government of national unity and not coalitions - if we are honest, it's coalitions by anything but the word.

So, it's worth more than passing interest to hear how DA federal chair Helen Zille's party is targeting the municipal elections in two years, especially when it comes to forming coalitions, something that has worked for - and against - the party in the past.