‘We've moved from a party of local government to a party of provincial government and now we're in national government. So it's very big for us, but also very big for South Africa,’ says the Democratic Alliance’s Federal Council chair.
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What this means is that we have avoided a far-left populist government with economic policies that would’ve ruined the country. HELEN ZILLE: They are serious portfolios, there’s no question about it, it’s an enormous challenge and an enormous amount of work that has to go into them to try and fix things. Home Affairs has been a disaster in the making for 30 years, and Basic Education just stubbornly refuses to enable our children to read, write, and calculate at the correct level.
HELEN ZILLE: Well, we never wanted 11. If you read the letter that I wrote carefully, I said these 11 are the ones that we would prioritise, and obviously giving the president some idea of the kind of portfolios we were interested in. For some reason, there was a complete misinterpretation of that by saying we were demanding all of these portfolios.
HELEN ZILLE: I think that’s a fair criticism. We weren’t expecting anything like a cabinet that size. We were working on about 27, 28. ADVERTISEMENT: CONTINUE READING BELOW We thought that the president would reduce the size of his cabinet. As it turned out, he didn’t. JEREMY MAGGS: The party in the early stages, Helen Zille, was criticised for also wanting the appointment of directors general in the portfolios that you were going to manage. Would you clarify that for me and going forward, is that still going to be a problem?
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