Helen Zille
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Helen Zille
Otta Helene "Helen" Zilleis a South African politician. She is the current Premier of the Western Cape, a member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament, the former leader of South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliancepolitical party, and a former Mayor of Cape Town...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 March 1951
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It's quite some spare part. We're delighted to be able to get this. It has been a small miracle.
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It's as big a scandal, for example, as the voluntary severance packages in schools which stripped education of so many skills and experience at the cost of billions of rands, and the schools system hasn't recovered.
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This is obviously a complex problem and we are taking advice from senior legal counsel.
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We need to know where the money to build the stadium is coming from, how it will be funded and that we don't bankrupt the city in the process.
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The DA is the only party in South Africa that has grown in every national election and that trend must continue, and it must accelerate, because South Africa is in a race against time to save our democracy.
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We cannot use the full budget to build just one stadium.