LETTER: Helen Zille is the best person to rescue SA (and the DA) from crisis
16 October 2019 - 08:16
Helen Zille’s passion, patriotism and organisational strengths are what lifted the DA from being a small opposition party (11% of the national vote) that was merely a “thorn in the flesh” of the ANC behemoth (at that time approaching 70% of the vote) to “serious contender” status, wresting the Cape Town metro and then the Western Cape provincial government from the grip of the predatory, corruption-riddled governing party.
Progressively, the DA began taking control of many municipalities across the nation, and then other major metros...
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