The Daily Edge

Cronje says the DA's real rival isn't the ANC — it's self-reliance. Plus his full Tony Leon defense and why lobbying is not state capture.

WSM calls Steenhuisen's News24 interview a ransom note — and says the DA must now choose between paying him off or going to war before November.

MacKay unpacks SA's R40bn automotive subsidy trap as Chery takes Rosslyn — and warns the honeypot is open to any manufacturer willing to dip.

Pete Kean returns: the High Court ruled, Steenhuisen is gone, but FMD's damage to SA's beef supply runs clean through to 2032. The fire still burns.

O'Sullivan tells Madlanga that Mkwanazi is no whistleblower, tracing police rot to a 2012 cover-up — as Pule's cabinet return shocks South Africa.