Helen Zille
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"Otta Helene" ""Helen"" "Zille" is the Premier of the Western Cape, a member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament, leader of South Africa/South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance (South Africa)/Democratic Alliance political party, and a former Mayor of Cape Town.

Zille is a former journalist and anti-history of South Africa in the apartheid era/apartheid activism/activist, and was one of the journalists who exposed the truth behind the death of Black Consciousness Movement/Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko while working for the Rand Daily Mail in the late 1970s. She also worked with the Black Sash and other pro-democracy groups during the 1980s. In the political arena, Zille has worked in all three tiers of government – as the Western Cape province's education Member of the Executive Council/MEC (1999–2004), as a Parliament of South Africa/Member of Parliament (2004–2006), as Mayor of Cape Town (2006–2009), and as Premier of the Western Cape (2009–present).

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In essence, the education department argues that the quality of the education children receive is irrelevant, as long as someone stands in front of the class.

So, here we stand with the greatest challenge we have faced. We have got to provide a stable government in Cape Town.

This is obviously a complex problem and we are taking advice from senior legal counsel.

The city has made a mess of firefighters' salaries because of the restructuring process, which is taking far too long.

This government's preoccupation with race has nothing to do with empowering those disadvantaged by apartheid. It has everything to do with empowering a small elite through cronyism and patronage.

The result on the ground is that five million South Africans still have no access to any basic sanitation - It is time for - real delivery.

The blame for the current state of the fire services must fall squarely on the mayor.

If they were unanimous in their rejection we would close the door.

The memorandum sets out all the DA's grievances and proposes a series of action steps which the DA believes the SABC should take -- including broadcasting the DA's manifesto launch live -- if it is serious about providing balanced and fair coverage of this and future elections.