Helen Zille (Otta Helene Maree)

The intra-party tensions came to a head with the return to a leadership position of the veteran former party leader Helen Zille who is firmly in the liberal camp at a meeting of the party's federal council last month...

He also faced questions about the DA's challenges in its own ranks including the disciplining of Cape Premier Helen Zille and more recently the suspension of the Mayor of Cape Town Patricia de Lille (AC Vol 58 No 13 EFF-ANC alliance floated & Vol 59 No 4 Auntie Pat's spat)...

Last week DA leader Mmusi Maimane forced Western Cape Premier and former party leader Helen Zille to apologise for tweeting that not all aspects of the colonial legacy were bad after the EFF threatened to pull out of the municipal coalition if he didn't discipline her...

The former Democratic Alliance (DA) leader and present Western Cape Premier Helen Zille has surprised many by saying that she may stand for the provincial leadership of the party...

At the end of 2014 she fell out with the then party leader Helen Zille who admitted that 'there was a serious and fundamental breakdown' in their relationship...

Party strategists see a particularly strong threat in the DA whose charismatic new leader the black Soweto-born Mmusi Maimane could hurt them far more than his predecessor Helen Zille (AC Vol 56 No 10 Maimane wins leadership)...

Maimane's leadership campaign had the strong support of outgoing party leader Helen Zille who had suddenly announced in April that she was stepping down before the party congress...

Despite political courtship from DA leader Helen Zille who has long-standing links with Ramphele the arrangement broke up after a backlash from Agang members who were not consulted about the deal...

Not a love tryst but a ridiculing of the alliance between Agang's Mamphela Ramphele and the Democratic Alliance's Helen Zille which although sealed with a public kiss ended in equally public acrimony on 2 February...

DA leader Helen Zille’s confident prediction that the next leader of the party would be black – without naming the leading contender from the party’s small pool of black leaders – pointed to the party’s changing posture...