Helen Zille
Helen Zille
Otta Helene "Helen" Zilleis a South African politician. She is the current Premier of the Western Cape, a member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament, the former leader of South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliancepolitical party, and a former Mayor of Cape Town...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 March 1951
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So, here we stand with the greatest challenge we have faced. We have got to provide a stable government in Cape Town.
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Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent a new acronym, or write a new empowerment charter, we can avoid some of the back-breaking work that sustained progress requires
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It is of extreme concern if our tracking system cannot track firearms. We had better make sure we know how to find them. If they are untraceable in the system it is bad enough, but if they are stolen, it is worse. We must report this to the police immediately.
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We need to know where the money to build the stadium is coming from, how it will be funded and that we don't bankrupt the city in the process.
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It's quite some spare part. We're delighted to be able to get this. It has been a small miracle.
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The blame for the current state of the fire services must fall squarely on the mayor.
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We cannot use the full budget to build just one stadium.
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The result on the ground is that five million South Africans still have no access to any basic sanitation - It is time for - real delivery.
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It's as big a scandal, for example, as the voluntary severance packages in schools which stripped education of so many skills and experience at the cost of billions of rands, and the schools system hasn't recovered.
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This is obviously a complex problem and we are taking advice from senior legal counsel.
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This government's preoccupation with race has nothing to do with empowering those disadvantaged by apartheid. It has everything to do with empowering a small elite through cronyism and patronage.
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And the public do not want their money used in that kind of cavalier fashion.
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Press reports that there has been a staff purge at the Civic Centre are incorrect.
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For the time being, we cannot throw millions of rands of public money into starting this project unless we can be sure we will be able to finish it.