Rob Rose from the FM and Zukile Majova from Scrolla.Africa speak to Helen Zille, the DA’s Joburg mayoral candidate, in the Sharp Sharp studio ahead of local government elections on November 4.
Zille says the election will decide whether Joburg and the other metros succeed or fail. She explains why she won’t name her coalition red lines, whether she could work with Herman Mashaba again, and what she would do about a bankrupt city and its water crisis. She also takes on Rob and Zuks over why the DA has struggled to break through, and says it is about to become the biggest party in the country.
They ask about inequality in Cape Town and Joburg, the future of the GNU, whether she would go into opposition, and what she really thinks of journalists (having been one herself).
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The fate of the country is tied to the fate of the metros, the DA veteran says, and if the metros continue on their downward spiral, we are doomed