Helen Zille (Otta Helene Maree)

On the DA front its parliamentary chief John Steenhuisen and Helen Zille who led the party's negotiating team have a new swagger which could yet be disappointed if they fail to secure some high-powered cabinet posts in the coalition...

KEY FIGURES IN THE GNU MARK II Democratic Alliance (DA) chief negotiator Helen Zille's account of the last 12 hours of digital negotiations for South Africa's Government of National Unity (GNU) reads like a political thriller...

A key figure pushing for the deal was former DA leader Helen Zille who remains the power behind the throne as head of the DA's Federal Executive...

But others fear that there will be major push-back from elements in the party who see the DA of Helen Zille and John Steenhuisen as representing white interests and unable to retain black leaders despite its multi-racial rank-and-file (AC Vol 61 No 4 Opposition in flux)...

The four major parties in contention are the ANC; the centre-right Democratic Alliance (DA) headed by John Steenhuisen and Helen Zille; Julius Malema's populist EFF; and Zuma's MK party...

We hear that an informal understanding was reached in recent talks between Roger Jardine's new party Change Starts Now and its backers and the DA led by Steenhuisen and power-behind-the-throne Helen Zille chair of the party's Federal Council...

On 1 December Jardine met with Steenhuisen and veteran DP leader Helen Zille in Cape Town...

We hear that donors to the DA have raised concerns with party barons such as former leader Helen Zille...

Ntuli is a vocal critic of Helen Zille the DA's powerful Federal Council Chairperson and eminence grise describing her status as 'cult-like'...

Former party leader Helen Zille now the chairperson of the party's Federal Council tweeted in June that 'the lockdown will kill more people in the longer term than Covid'...

ContrastMaimane was parachuted into the DA as leader to replace veteran leader Helen Zille in 2015 when she stood down to become Western Cape Premier (AC Vol 56 No 25 Dissent dogs DA leadership)...