Profile: Helen Zille is the former leader of the DA and the premier of the Western Cape. A former journalist for the Rand Daily Mail, she moved to politics late in her career, joining what was then the Democratic Party in 1994. Later she became an MP for the DA, then mayor of Cape Town before being elected as the party leader in 2007 and then premier in 2009. She has just over 1-million followers on Twitter. Citation: This week, Tweet of the Week comes from the archives, so to speak. Helen Zille tweeted her congratulatory message to Patricia de Lille on March 14 2011, after the DA voted De Lille as its mayoral candidate for Cape Town, to take over from Dan Plato. Happy days. It was the culmination of a long flirtation that led to the Independent Democrats (ID) under De Lille first joining the Cape Town DA-led coalition it had shunned, then formally merging with the DA and, finally, the election of De Lille as Cape Town mayor. Since then, De Lille has gone from strength to strength i...
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