Helen Zille (Otta Helene Maree)

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)...

The intra-party tensions came to a head with the return to a leadership position of the veteran former party leader Helen Zille who is firmly in the liberal camp at a meeting of the party's federal council last month...

He also faced questions about the DA's challenges in its own ranks including the disciplining of Cape Premier Helen Zille and more recently the suspension of the Mayor of Cape Town Patricia de Lille (AC Vol 58 No 13 EFF-ANC alliance floated & Vol 59 No 4 Auntie Pat's spat)...

Last week DA leader Mmusi Maimane forced Western Cape Premier and former party leader Helen Zille to apologise for tweeting that not all aspects of the colonial legacy were bad after the EFF threatened to pull out of the municipal coalition if he didn't discipline her...

The former Democratic Alliance (DA) leader and present Western Cape Premier Helen Zille has surprised many by saying that she may stand for the provincial leadership of the party...