Helen Zille

Politician

Helen Zille was born in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa on March 9th, 1951 and is the Politician. At the age of 73, Helen Zille biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
March 9, 1951
Nationality
South Africa
Place of Birth
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Age
73 years old
Zodiac Sign
Pisces
Profession
Journalist, Politician
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St Mary's School, Waverley, University of the Witwatersrand
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Johann Maree ​(m. 1982)​
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Helen Zille Life

Helen Zelle (née Zille, born 9 March 1951) is a South African politician.

She has been the Democratic Alliance's Federal Council Chairperson since October 20th, 2019.

She served as Premier of the Western Cape Province for two five years and was a member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament from 2009 to 2019.

She served as the Federal Leader of the Democratic Alliance from 2007 to 2015, as Mayor of Cape Town from 2006 to 2009.

Zille, a former journalist and anti-apartheid protester who was one of the journalists who exposed the investigation into the death of Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko while working for the Rand Daily Mail in the late 1970s, was a former journalist and anti-apartheid activist.

During the 1980s, she served with the Black Sash and other pro-democracy organizations.

Zille has served in all three tiers of government as the Western Cape's education MEC (1999-2001), as Mayor of Cape Town (2006–2009) and Premier of the Western Cape (2009–2019). In 2008, Zille was named World Mayor of the Year.

In July 2007, the National Press Club selected her as Newsmaker of the Year 2006.

Zille is a German speaker who speaks English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, and German. Following her release from the premiership in May 2019, she joined the South African Institute of Race Relations as a senior policy fellow in July 2019, but she halted her studies in October 2019.

In August 2019, Helen began her own podcast, Tea with Helen.

In October 2019, Zille announced her candidacy for Federal Council Chairperson of the DA.

She was elected in the first round.

Education policy work

Zille founded a public policy firm in 1989, and she was given the role of Director of Human Relations and Public Affairs at the University of Cape Town in 1993. Zille chaired the governing body of Grove Primary School during this period, and in 1996 led a fruitful resistance to government policy restricting power to appoint employees.

The Democratic Party, now the Democratic Alliance, had then invited Zille to write a draft Education Policy in the Western Cape. MEC for Education. She became a member of the Western Cape Provincial Legislature in 1999 and was named MEC for Education.

Zille became a Member of Parliament with the DA in 2004. She rose to the rank of deputy federal chairperson and served as the national party spokesperson and advocate for education within the DA.

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Helen Zille Career

Early life and career

Helen Zille was born in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, South Africa's oldest child of parents who fled Germany in the 1930s to avoid Nazi persecution due to the fact that her maternal grandfather and paternal grandmother were Jewish.

Zille was said to be the grandniece of Berlin painter Heinrich Zille. She gave corresponding hints by herself in the past but didn't publish them in her autobiography, published in 2016. Martina Rhode of Berlin had noticed before that there was a mix-up in her uncle Heinrich's handwritten notes; people with the same name but with different birthplaces and dates of birth.

Her mother served as a volunteer with the Black Sash Advice Bureau. Although her family lived in Rivonia, she was educated at St Mary's School, Waverley, one of the city's private education institutions. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Witwatersrand. Around 1969, she became a member of the Young Progressives, the Young Progressive Youth Movement of the liberal and anti-apartheid Progressive Party.

She married Professor Johann Maree in 1982 and they have two sons. She is a member of Rondebosch United Church in Cape Town.

Zille began her career as a political reporter for the Rand Daily Mail newspaper in 1974. The South African Minister of Justice and the Police J.T. fled to the United States in September 1977. Kruger announced that anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko had died in jail as a result of an extended hunger strike. After tracking down and interviewing doctors involved in the investigation, Zille and her reporter Allister Sparks were certain that Kruger's tale was a lie, and Zille and her editor Allister Sparks were certain that it was a ruse, and Zille and her editor were assured that this was a cover-up, and Zille provided concrete evidence of this.

Minister Kruger threatened to prohibit the newspaper immediately after the story was published, and Zille was notified of death threats. Zille and Sparks were represented by defence lawyer Sydney Kentridge at the new quasi-judicial Press Council. Both reporters were found to have "tendentious reporting," and the paper was forced to publish a correction. When representing the Biko family at the inquest into his death, Kentridge later confirmed the truth of Zille's account. The inquest found that Biko's death was caused by a serious head injury, but that no one was identified.

Zille and editor Allister Sparks resigned from the Rand Daily Mail after the paper's founder, Anglo American, ordered that sparks silence the paper's egal rights sentiments.

Zille was heavily involved in the Black Sash movement in the 1980s. She served on the organisation's regional and national executive, as well as vice-chair of the End Conscription Campaign in the Western Cape. She was jailed for being in a "group area" without a license during this time and received a suspended prison term. During the 1986 State of Emergency, Zille and her husband were voluntarily forced into hiding with their two-year-old son.

Zille was also active in the South Africa Beyond Apartheid Project and the Cape Town Peace Committee. She later obtained evidence for the Goldstone Commission, which investigated attempts to destabilize the Western Cape ahead of the 1994 elections.

Later career

Following her resignation from public service in May 2019, it was revealed in July 2019 that she had joined the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) as a senior policy analyst. "The joining of forces between Ms Zille and the IRR brings together two of the country's most outspoken reformist voices." Maimane's role as the head of the party was sacked shortly by the institute in September 2019, prompting Alan Winde to replace him as the institute's leader. Senior DA officials condemned the opinion piece, but Zille defended it. In October 2019, she halted her IRR service.

In August 2019, Zille launched Tea with Helen, with the intention of engaging in dialogue with people who disagree with her political convictions. The podcast is also available on YouTube, iTunes, and Spotify. Peter Bruce, Business Day's former editor-in-chief, was the first guest on the program. Ferial Haffajee, Max du Preez, and Adam Habib are among the podcast's others who have appeared on the show. Zille tried to contact EFF leader Julius Malema, but he declined the invitation.

Zille announced her candidacy for the DA's Federal Council Chairperson on October 4, 2019, after incumbent James Selfe announced his resignation. Zille made the announcement after she characterized the group as being "distressed and political uncertainty." The position is similar to that of Secretary-General of a given political party's leadership structure. Zille gained the election later this month, and it was declared by the end of the month.

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