Helen Zille on CNN

There was an interesting 3-parts feature on CNN about Helen Zille, the leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance in South Africa, and long-time Cape Town mayor. Cape Town is currently the only big city in South Africa governed by a DA-led coalition. The ruling ANC party have been trying to push her aside for ages, using all sort of dirty tricks like re-shaping the election map of the Western Cape province and even relocating thousands of people from the Gauteng province deep in the country to the vicinity of Cape Town. They would stop at nothing to take this stronghold of political diversity and pluralism, and surely the dirty smearing tactics and using outright lies about her are not excluded from their arsenal.

( Helen Zille is great. But she will never be elected president. )

Cross-posted to talk_politics .