Vol 66 No 15 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Helen Zille head of the DA's federal executive is reportedly preparing a bid to run for Mayor of Johannesburg at next year's local elections...
Another contender is Mmusi Maimane chair of the Budget Appropriations Committee who has rebuilt his career since resigning as leader of the Democratic Alliance in 2019 after an ideological battle with the party's liberal wing led by Helen Zille (AC Vol 60 No 23 The DA's race dilemma & Dispatches 28/4/25 Treasury is the big loser after the tax hike fiasco)...
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Vol 66 No 9 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Supporters of ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile have been emboldened in their opposition to the DA's inclusion in the coalition; and critics such as Helen Zille of John Steenhuisen's leadership of the DA lamented that he didn't capitalise more on the ANC's discomfiture over the budget...
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Vol 66 No 8 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
DA parliamentary leader John Steenhuisen and Federal Council Chair Helen Zille differ on GNU tactics with Zille advocating a more uncompromising approach taking matters to the brink...
DA Chair Helen Zille like Mbaks is seen as a frustrated control freak with perceptions of her waning influence in the DA...
DA Chair Helen Zille would support Leon's appointment...
Its federal chair Helen Zille has said that it is not a Government of National Unity but an ANC/DA coalition...
Vol 65 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
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...
Vol 65 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
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...
Vol 65 No 12 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
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)...
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Vol 65 No 11 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
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...