Hill-Lewis defends GNU but warns ANC over mandate

Polity Audio Articles · Jul 2, 2026 · 4m

Hill-Lewis defends GNU but warns ANC over mandate In his first major address since assuming the leadership of the DA, Geordin Hill-Lewis has declared that South Africa has entered a "second transition" that demands a "fundamentally new type of political movement". Speaking in Sandton on Thursday, Hill-Lewis called for an "honest, unvarnished assessment" of post-1994 politics. He framed the upcoming era as a critical shift away from the apartheid-era legacy of "organised dependency" and subjecthood, urging a return to the collective, self-determined future South Africans chose in the 1990s…