Geordin Hill-Lewis, previously mayor of Cape Town, has been elected leader of South Africa's Democratic Alliance (DA), the country's second-largest opposition party, as it sets its sights on challenging the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in the 2029 general elections. The DA currently holds six cabinet posts in a national unity government alongside the ANC, which controls 20 — a coalition formed after shifting voter sentiment weakened the ANC's historic majority. The leadership change is significant as the ANC, polling at 38 percent in a recent Ipsos survey, heads toward its own leadership conference with no clear successor yet identified to President Cyril Ramaphosa.