The Boat,the Black Man and the DA’s Persistent Blind Spot
On 14 April 2026, Helen Zille climbed into a kayak on the flooded streets of Johannesburg. The stunt was designed to dramatise a damning statistic: that the City of Joburg has spent only 26% of its capital infrastructure budget in the 2025/26 financial year. It was, on paper, a legitimate political point.