Helen Zille speaks to the media at IEC?s election results centre during the municipal elections of 2021 on November 02, 2021 in Pretoria, South Africa. The municipal elections were held, to elect councils for all district, metropolitan and local municipalities in each of the country's nine provinces. (Photo by Gallo Images/Beeld/Deaan Vivier)
Boardroom Talk
Boardroom Talk – Helen Zille does a repeat of BNC#5, a riposte of note to Herman, Gayton
Zille says in Friday’s crucial Joburg Mayoral vote, Mashaba and the DA’s other Moonshot Pact partners were dropped by MacKenzie, just as she had predicted.
By Alec Hogg
At BNC#5 in March, veteran politician Helen Zille sat silently in the front row while Gayton MacKenzie and Herman Mashaba laid into her. MacKenzie called her "batshit crazy"; Mashaba was angry at having been snubbed when Zille refused to accept his outstretched hand. These two party leaders later chummed up for a pic (above).
Zille, who clearly believes revenge is best served cold, eviscerated her rivals during our "nightcap" discussion that evening. One which ran for double the scheduled 45 minutes – I read the room, you could have heard a pin drop – so the recording is in two parts (click here for Part One; click here for Part Two).
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