URI(s)
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1951
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Democratic Alliance (South Africa)
Birth Place
- Hillbrow (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Associated Language
- English
Occupation
(lcsh) Journalist
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Sachs, A. A new city for South Africa, 1991:t.p. (Helen Zille)
- found: Not without a fight, 2016:title page (Helen Zille) jacket (born in 1951 in Hillbrow, Johannesburg. Graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand; political journalist at the Rand Daily Mail. After a term in the Western Cape provincial legislature under the newly formed Democratic Alliance, she was elected as a member of parliament in 2004. In 2006 elected mayor of Cape Town and in 2007 became leader of the DA. In 2009 she was appointed premier of the province, a position that she continues to hold after stepping down as DA leader in 2015)
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Collection Membership(s)
Change Notes
- 1992-10-02: new
- 2017-01-25: revised
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