In the paper tonight ... Ms De Lille would have been premier of the western Cape if she had agreed to merge her party with the DA ...this was part of the horse trading pre elections ... Zille said that twice she had offered her the premiership and she ( Ms Zille ) would have continued in her powerful seat as mayor of cape town .. If one looks at what transpired although a difficult choice at the time for Ms De Lille , it would have effectively meant the " death " of the party that she put her heart and soul into .. sad fact is the election results showed that it is indeed dying garnering only a small percentage of the vote ...
I admire ms De Lille for her feisty fighting character . something she would ahve had to temper in the role of premier ... there are similarities between the two women ,, excepting Zille is better articulated ...
But what is amazing is Ms Zille actually being prepared to forgo premiership in the goal of forging a party with a different demographic flavour added ..
Her words were uopn being asked if there was any talk of how opposition leaders would be ranked within any alliance she said .. " absolutley not , however this is going to take leaders that are big on vision and courage and small on ego and pride ... "" " that is what the requirement is going to be " apparently there is still engagament between various potential allies ..
As much as the ANC dislike Ms Zille as their now seen as biggest threat .. they equally hate Ms De Lille for her tearing open the arms deal and various other cans of worms ..I have it on good authority that she quietend down on the arms deal fiasco backk then when she started to get those phone calls saying .." hello nice children and family you have ... " guess the veiled threat .. ??