Zille Enters DA Leadership Race

Farrel — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:58:00 -0400

Mayor Of Cape Town Helen Zille has announced that she will be running for the position of leader of the DA.

If she wins she will not be vacating her post as mayor and instead will have to simultaneously juggle both positions. For instance she will have daily 7am meetings with her mayoral staff and then an hour later pop over to parliament for another meeting with national DA staff.

Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea. Cape Town is really too important for the DA to mess up. If they do the ANC will pounce on the opportunity to show the DA are incapable of governing. With the upcoming preparations for 2010 and no doubt some further attacks by the ANC on getting her out of power I feel Zille needs to be 100% committed to Cape Town.

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Zille Enters DA Leadership Race