Steenhuisen faces palace revolt

Senior Democratic Alliance (DA) leaders are backing Western Cape agriculture MEC Ivan Meye to replace John Steenhuisen as the minister of agriculture after the party’s federal congress in April, as criticism persists over his handling of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak.

Support for a reshuffle of the DA’s six cabinet posts has solidified across most provinces, multiple provincial leaders told the Mail & Guardian, with the argument centred on the response to the outbreak...