What Steenhuisen’s exit tells us about the DA’s ceiling: 5 Feb '26 by explain.co.za

We hope you’re surviving the summer heat and are at least doing better than John Steenhuisen, who revealed yesterday that he would be stepping down as the leader of the DA. Did UberEats catch up with old Johnny boy? Find out in our analysis of his announcement. It’s not a great time for members of the GNU in general, with the Arts and Culture minister being sued… by an artist. Tough times.
In other news, Mzansi (unfortunately) made it onto the Epstein files, and we celebrate a fave’s Grammy win, but question why all African music is lumped together. In less depressing news (depending on whether you found Terminator funny), AI chatbots now have their own social media platform, plus we’ve got our AGOA spot back - for now.

So, let’s dive into these stories and more in this week’s wrap, brought to you by the explain.co.za team. 😄

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