Not Without A Fight‚ Helen Zille’s autobiography‚ is number one in SA for the fourth week running‚ Penguin Books SA says. Zille welcomed the news while travelling‚ tweeting: "Nice news to receive in Morocco. Thank you SA. I hope you find the book an easy‚ challenging read." She was born in 1951 in Hillbrow‚ Johannesburg‚ the daughter of refugees who escaped Nazi Germany. After graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand‚ she made a name for herself as a political journalist and as an outspoken critic of apartheid‚ working for then leading liberal newspaper the Rand Daily Mail‚ where she wrote the story exposing Steve Biko’s murder. Zille joined the Democratic Party in the mid-1990s‚ and was asked to reformulate the party’s education policy. After a term in the Western Cape provincial legislature under the newly formed DA‚ she was elected as an MP in 2004‚ serving on the portfolio committee on education and as the party’s national spokesperson. In 2006, Zille was elected mayo...
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