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Zille, Helen

LC control no.no 92024424
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Personal name headingZille, Helen
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Associated placeJohannesburg (South Africa) Cape Town (South Africa)
Birth date1951
Place of birthHillbrow (Johannesburg, South Africa)
AffiliationDemocratic Alliance (South Africa)
Profession or occupationJournalist Legislators Mayors Politicians
Found inSachs, A. A new city for South Africa, 1991: t.p. (Helen Zille)
Not without a fight, 2016: title page (Helen Zille) jacket (born in 1951 in Hillbrow, Johannesburg. Graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand; political journalist at the Rand Daily Mail. After a term in the Western Cape provincial legislature under the newly formed Democratic Alliance, she was elected as a member of parliament in 2004. In 2006 elected mayor of Cape Town and in 2007 became leader of the DA. In 2009 she was appointed premier of the province, a position that she continues to hold after stepping down as DA leader in 2015)
Associated languageeng