The bid by former DA leader Helen Zille to become Mayor of Johannesburg at year end is seen as a move by the veteran political leader to clean up endemic corruption and decay which could also if it succeeds lift the DA's national share of the vote...

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)...

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...

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...