Johannesburg: The leader of South Africa’s main opposition party is standing down, possibly opening the way for a black candidate to broaden the Democratic Alliance’s electoral appeal. Helen Zille, 62, the daughter of German immigrants, has spent the past eight years heading the liberal democratic DA, which won more than 22 per cent of the vote in elections in May 2014, its best-ever result, as the ruling African National Congress’s share slipped to 62 per cent from more than 65 per cent.
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